Édouard Dantan 1848-1897 by Sophie de Juvigny

On their separation, Agostina opened Café du Tambourin on the Boulevard de Clichy that became a meeting place for artists.Dantan spent his summers in Villerville, where he died on 9 July 1897 when the carriage in which he was riding crashed violently into the village church. She bore a child to Dantan, Jean-Pierre, in 1873. In 1890, 18 he served on the jury of the Salon.įor twelve years Dantan's companion was the model Agostina Segatori, who had also posed for artists such as Jean-Baptiste Corot, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Delacroix and Édouard Manet. He continued to exhibit at the Salon until 1895. In the years after the war Dantan exhibited a number of other paintings at the Salon including Hercules at the Feet of Omphale (1874), Death of Tusaphane (1875), The Nymph Salmacis (1876), Priam Demanding of Achillees the Body of Hector (1877), Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew (1878), Corner of a Studio (1880) and The Breakfast of the Model (1881). During the war the family home was burned down. He was given the rank of a sergeant, and was later promoted to lieutenant.

Dantan's first exhibit at the Paris Salon was An Episode in the Destruction of Pompeii in 1869.In 1870 the Franco-Prussian War interrupted his work, and he enlisted in the defence force. At the age of nineteen he won a commission for a large mural painting of The Holy Trinity for the Hospice Brezin at Marne (Seine-et-Oise). Dantan was a pupil of Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

His father, Antoine Laurent Dantan, and uncle, Jean-Pierre Dantan, were both well-known sculptors. His grandfather, who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars, was a wood sculptor. Édouard Joseph Dantan was born on 26 August 1848 in Paris. He was widely recognized in his day, although he was subsequently eclipsed by painters with more modern styles. Édouard Joseph Dantan (26 August 1848 – 7 July 1897) was a French painter in the cl*ical tradition.

Édouard Dantan 1848-1897 by Sophie de Juvigny