Sophie Debon
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Sophie Debon née Bompart, (1787–1848) was a French decorative porcelain painter active in Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century. She specialised in history painting and portraiture, producing works including copies after Old Masters, and regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1817 and 1833.
Marie Alexandrine Sophie Bompart was born in Paris in 1787 to Nicolas François Bompart and Marie Anne Chenié.[1][2][3] She trained as a porcelain painter under Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, a leading figure in the discipline, who ran a private atelier that trained approximately thirty women artists at a time.[4][5] Debon entered Jaquotot’s atelier in 1816, through her joining the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres the same year.[6]
After her marriage to Jacques François Debon on 25 September 1806, Bompart-Debon worked professionally under the name Madame Debon.[7][3] Throughout her career, she produced painted porcelain portraits and narrative scenes after Old Masters as well as from life, a practice characteristic of high-end decorative painting during the Restoration and July Monarchy.[4]
Bompart-Debon lived and worked throughout the central north east of Paris throughout her career, residing successively in the rue de Ménilmontant, rue Saint-Sébastien, rue de Jouy, and later rue de Buffault.[7][8][9] She died at her studio in Paris in April 1848.[3]