Dantan, Antoine Laurent |
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BORN 8 Dec 1798, Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine - DIED 25 May 1878, Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Père Lachaise, Rue du Repos 16 (division 04, ligne 01, AD, 16) |
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Antoine Laurant Dantan and his brother Jean Pierre Dantan were both sons of a wood carver. Antoine entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris in 1816, where François-Joseph Bosio was his teacher. In 1828 he won de Prix de Rome. He sculpted busts of Charles X (1824) and Bellini (1832). His statues of Jacques Lemercier and Philippe Delorme were placed at the courtyard of the Louvre. For the church of the Madeleine he created a statue of the archangel Raphael. His son Édouard Dantan (1848-1897) was a moderately successful painter. Related persons • was teacher of Allar, André Joseph • is brother/sister of Dantan, Jean Pierre |
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 The grave of Antoine Laurant Dantan and Jean Pierre Dantan at Père Lachaise, Paris. Picture by Androom (24 Oct 2014) |
Sources • Antoine Laurent Dantan - Wikipédia (FR) |
