
Antoine Laurent Dantan (8 December 1798 in
Saint-Cloud
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– 25 May 1878 in
Saint-Cloud
Saint-Cloud () is a French commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris. Like other communes of Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of France's wealthie ...
) was a French academic
sculptor
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, known as 'Dantan the Elder' to distinguish him from his slightly younger brother,
Jean-Pierre Dantan
Jean-Pierre Dantan (28 December 1800, in Paris – 6 September 1869, in Baden-Baden), known as Dantan the Younger, was a French portrait sculptor. His subjects include many famous figures from the realms of politics (for example, Talleyrand, ...
(1800–1869), who was also a sculptor. He won the
Prix de Rome
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for sculpture in 1828.
The Dantan brothers are sometimes confused in the literature. Indeed, they both entered the studio of
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, at the
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
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in Paris, at the same time in 1823. He was the subject of an article in the French newspaper ''
L'Illustration
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'' in 1850.
[Augustin Joseph Du Pays, 'Visites aux ateliers remier article Atelier de M. Dantan Ainé', ''L'Illustration'', 11 May 1850, pp. 293–94.] He had a son,
Édouard Joseph Dantan
Édouard Joseph Dantan (26 August 1848 – 7 July 1897) was a French painter in the classical tradition. He was widely recognized and successful, even receiving grudging respect from a contemporary Modernist painter and critic Walter Sickert.
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(1848–1897), who became a well-known painter in his lifetime.
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1798 births
1878 deaths
People from Saint-Cloud
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Prix de Rome for sculpture
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century French male artists
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