Jean-Pierre Dantan

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Jean-Pierre Dantan (born December 28, 1800 in Paris , † September 6, 1869 in Baden-Baden ) was a French sculptor and caricaturist .

Jean-Pierre Dantan, also called Dantan jeune (Dantan the Younger), took up the profession of sculptor like his brother Antoine Laurent Dantan. They learned their craft from their father, an ornamental wood carver. Both brothers attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where they were taught classical sculpture by François Joseph Bosio . But with one of his first works, the statuette of the handicapped painter Louis Joseph César Ducornet, Jean-Pierre caused a sensation with its unusually realistic expressiveness. He later perfected the art of portraying people characteristically by their salient features by making hundreds of small caricature busts (20 to 60 centimeters). He sold them in his “Dantan Museum”, a room in the covered Passage des Panoramas (a famous shopping arcade in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris). Among those portrayed are many famous personalities of his time, such as the politicians Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and King Louis-Philippe I , the musicians Ludwig van Beethoven , Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt as well as the poets Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac . Her and countless other busts can now be found in many museums around the world, but above all in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris .

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Dantan: Musée Dantan . Paris, Delloye 1838
  • J. Seligman: Figures of Fun. The Caricature-Statuettes of Jean-Pierre-Dantan . London, Oxfort University Press 1957
  • Dantan jeune. Caricatures et portraits de la societe romantique . Collections du Musée Carnavalet. Paris, Maison de Balzac 1992. ISBN 2-901357-04-0
  • Charges et bustes de Dantan jeune. Esquisse Biographiquee Dédiée à Méry (Ed.1863). (Reprint) Paris, Hachette Livre 2018. ISBN 978-2-01-252959-5
  • Catalog des bustes, statuettes, charges et caricatures de Dantan jeune à Paris (1862). (Reprint) Delhi, Pranava Books 2019

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SURNAME Dantan, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dantan le joune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1869
Place of death Baden-Baden