Antoine Laurent Dantan
Antoine Laurent Dantan, known as Elder the (Saint-Cloud 1798 - id. 1878) is a French academic sculptor of the XIXe century. It is sometimes confused with his brother Jean-Pierre Dantan, sculptor caricaturist more known than him today.
Formed, like his Jean-Pierre brother after him, by the training near his father wood-carver, Antoine Laurent Dantan entered to the Ecole of the Art schools of Paris in 1816 and followed the courses of the sculptor François-Joseph Bosio before being rewarded by the Prix for Rome in 1828.
Less known today than his younger brother with whom one confuses it sometimes, it remains especially like the author of statues of academic style decorating certain monuments of the towns of France, for example the statues of Jacques Lemercier and Philippe Delorme for the Court of the Palais of Louvre or the statue of the Raphaël archangel for the church of the Madeleine with Paris.
Him is also known to them works which preserves the Musée of Louvre: " Young bather playing with a chien" (marble of 1833) and " The Intoxication of Silène" (composition out of marble).
It also carried out statuettes from 20 to 60 cm out of marble or bronze like the bust of Charles X in 1824, a small bust of Bellini in 1832 or the " Neapolitan young person with the tambourin".
It is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in Paris (Division IV), like his brother, in the family concession decorated by the two brothers (medallions of Dantan Père and young Dantan by Antoine-Laurent and medallions of Mrs. Dantan and Dantan the elder one by Jean-Pierre).
The artistic line of Dantan was prolonged with Edouard-Joseph Dantan (1848-1897), known minor academic painter for works like " The workshop of the sculpteur" , " An interval with the Comédie-Française " or " A corner of Salon".
Other works
- statue of Villars, in Versailles
- statue of the dolphin of France, in Versailles
- statue of Juvénal of Ursins, for the town hall of Paris (1838)
- bust of Rachel (1839)
- statue of Duquesne (1844), in Dieppe
- statue of Malherbe (1847), in Caen
- burial of François Gerard (about 1837), Cemetery of Montparnasse, division 1, section 1
- ancient tomb with Caryatid S, Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise
- Bronze lions of the pedestal of the Obelisk of Arles
External bonds
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- References for the court of Louvre, Dantan, on Louvre passion
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