Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan
(1847 - 1913)
 

Édouard Debat-Ponsan was a French academic painter noted for his allegorical works, scenes of peasant life and Orientalist works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Debat-Ponsan

Love Dies in Time
1878
Oil on Canvas
114.3 x 146.05 cm
MiA -Minneapolis Institute of Art

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2280/love-dies-in-time-edouard-bernard-debat-ponsan

This painting was one of a pair illustrating the vicissitudes of love through time, which the artist exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1878, and which subsequently belonged to the author Emile Zola. The lost pendant, Love Passes the Time, depicted the happy young couple in a sun-drenched glade. Here, however, all has gone awry: Cupid mourns the death of the young woman, while her lover grasps at the arm of winged Time in a futile attempt to alter the course of events.