[2] Paul-Louis Gustave Delance was born on March 14, 1848, in Paris, France.

[2] Delance studied art at École des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat.

[6][2] Students of his included Jean Mannheim,[6] John Noble Barlow, Robert Burns, Jenny Eakin Delony,[7] Anna Sahlstén, William Edwin Atkinson,[8] among others.

Julie Feurgard died in 1892, as a result of her death, Delance's paintings became focused on landscape, portrait and religious subjects.

In 17 July 1908, Delance was awarded the Knight of France's Legion of Honour.