François Debon

François Hyppolite Debon (2 December 1807, Paris – 29 February 1872, Paris), was a French painter. He studied under Antoine-Jean Gros and Abel de Pujol, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, where he won several medals, including a third class one in 1844 and two second class ones in 1835 and 1868.^[1] Baudelaire said of Debon's 1845 painting The Battle of Hastings "What talent! What energy!" That canvas was later lost in a fire at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen in 1905.

Biography

Philippe Auquier, Catalog of paintings, sculptures, pastels and drawings, Barlatier, 1908, p. 81.

Works

Un justicier (Self-portrait), 1835, Musée de la Vie romantique, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris;
La Bataille d'Hastings, 1845, musée des beaux-arts, Caen;
Défaite d'Attila dans les plaines de Châlons, 1848, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille;
L'Entrée de Guillaume le conquérant à Londres, 1856, destroyed;
Portrait de Monsieur Guillard, lost;
Portrait en pied de Guillaume le conquérant, 1843, destroyed.