Jean Despujols (Salles en Gironde 19 March 1886-Shreveport, 1965) was a French, later naturalised American, painter.
In 1914 he won the Prix de Rome for painting but the outbreak of World War I suspended the French residencies at the villa Médicis.
His associations with America began in 1924-1936 as a teacher of the American art students sent to study at the École des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau.
In 1936, he won the Prix de l'Indochine, and was selected by the Grand Conseil Economique of French Indochina to undertake a tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos painting and drawing what he saw.
[1][2][3] When World War II broke out he emigrated to America, settling in Louisiana, and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Shreveport.