Antoine Ponchin

Antoine Marius Simon Ponchin (29 October 1872, Marseille - 15 December 1933, Paris) was a French Impressionist landscape painter.

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Biography

His father, Joseph Marius Ponchin (1846-1891) was also a painter. He was a student of Théophile Henri Décanis, Julien Gustave Gagliardini and Jean-Baptiste Olive. From 1893 until his death, he was a regular exhibitor at the Salon. He received honorable mention there in 1904 and a third-class medal in 1906, the same year he was awarded the Prix de Raigecourt-Goyon for landscape painting. In 1910, he received a second-class medal.

In 1922, after having participated in the {{ill|Exposition coloniale de Marseille|exposition coloniale de Marseille (1922) and being awarded the Prix de l'Indochine, he was sent on a mission to Hanoi by the Colonial Ministry. He was accompanied by his son, Joseph Henri (1897-1981), who was also a painter. Together, they decorated the new Lycée Albert-Sarraut.[1]

The mission was a great success and he was nominated for the Legion of Honor by Albert Sarraut himself, who was then the Colonial Minister. That same year, he was named a Knight in the Legion.[2]

His works may be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

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References
  1. Association des anciens du lycée Albert-Sarraut
  2. "Notice no. LH/2196/35". Base Léonore, Ministry of Culture (France).

Further reading
  • André Alauzen and Laurent Noet, Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Jeanne Laffitte, 2006 ISBN 978-2-86276-441-2

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