Étienne Dantoine

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Étienne Dantoine (or "d'Antoine" ) (born February 20, 1737 in Marseille , † March 23, 1809 in Marseille) was a French sculptor .

biography

Étienne Dantoine, born in the city of Marseille , where he took lessons in drawing and modeling at the Académie de Peinture and did an apprenticeship with a ceramist. During a stay in Rome from 1766 to 1768, where he the Rome Prize was awarded, he created a bust for Cardinal François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis and a statue of the architect Luigi Vanvitelli . After returning across the Alps, he was able to carry out the tomb for Bishop Joseph-Dominique d'Inguimbert in Carpentras in 1774 in the hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Carpentras , which the bishop had built. In the same year he sent the Académie royale de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture de Toulouse the model for a Pluto sculpture.

In the city of Montpellier , from 1773 to 1776, he carried out the group of figures for the monumental Fontaine des Trois Grâces , which was not installed until 1797 , for which the city awarded him an annual pension instead of a fee. He went to Paris for further training . There he married, but his wife died shortly after returning to Marseille.

At the art exhibitions of Marseille in the years VIII of the Revolution (1800) and XI (1803) his sculptures caused a sensation. His terracotta work showed, among other things, a globe on which the allegorical figures of Justitia, wisdom and prudence stood, or the personifications of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean connected by the Languedoc Canal .

In 1806, Étienne Dantoine provided a memorial to General Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, who died near Marengo in 1800, with a marble urn on a granite column. This monument stood in the Jardin Pierre Puget city ​​garden in Marseille.

In 1799 Dantoine was accepted into the Académie de Marseille . After his death, Simon-Célestin Croze-Magnan wrote a biography of the artist and the painter Giry, who died in the same year.

Works in public collections

  • Pluto , 1772, terracotta, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
  • Agrippina , 1772, Calvet Museum , Avignon
  • Joseph-Dominique d'Inguimbert's tomb , 1774, Hôtel-Dieu, Carpentras
  • Calling the Vestal Virgin , terracotta relief, Musée des Beaux-Arts , Marseille
  • Charite Fountain (Fontaine des Trois Graces), 1776, Place de la Comédie in Montpellier (original sculpture since 1989 in the Montpellier Opera , replaced by a copy on the fountain)
  • Fountain of the Unicorns (Fontaine des Licornes), 1776, Place de La Canourgue in Montpellier
  • Monument Pierre Puget , 1801, at the intersection of Rue de Rome and Rue de La Palud in Marseille
  • Homer monument , 1803, historical column from the crypt of the Saint-Victor monastery with a bust of Homer , at the intersection of Rue Moustier and Rue d'Aubagne in Marseille
  • Monument to Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, 1806, Musée Borély , Marseille

  • Tomb for Joseph-Dominique d'Inguimbert, Carpentras

  • Charite Fountain, Montpellier

  • Fountain of the Unicorns, Montpellier

bibliography

  • Paul Masson (among others): Encyclopédie départementale des Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille, 17 vols. 1913-1937, vol. 4, p. 159 and vol. 6, pp. 388-389.
  • Etienne-Antoine Parrocel: Annales de la peinture. 1862, p. 412.
  • André Alauzen, Laurent Noet (among others): Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Marseille 2006.
  • Elisabeth Mognetti (among others): Fontaines de Marseille. Guide historique. Marseille 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the sculptures of the Musée d'Augustins in Toulouse
  2. ↑ a b Figure group of the Charites ( Memento from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Louis Toussaint Dassy: L'Académie de Marseille, ses origines, ses publications, ses archives, ses membres. Marseille 1877, p. 289.
  4. ↑ Joseph Liabastres: Histoire de Carpentras. Ancienne capitale du comté Venaissin. Carpentras 1891, p. 214.
  5. ↑ Monuments historiques: Monument funéraire de Mgr d'Inguimbert, évêque de Carpentras mort en 1757
  6. ↑ Christine Lavayssiere: Fontaines sèches de la ville de Marseille. In: Provence historique 1981, pp. 237-246. (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Dantoine, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1809
Place of death Marseille