![]() ![]() In 1870the artist had gone to paris to volunteer in the army against the Prussians. EdouardDanton entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts as a student, and under the mastership of Pils and Lehmann made suchrapid progress that in 1867 the Government commissioned him for some important decorative compositions.Two years later he showed his first picture at the Salon, a picture which had somewhat curious adventures. ![]() His uncle, the younger son,also became a sculptor, and was famous especially for his caricature portraits in clay and bronze,and for his burlesque and satirical portraits in crayon of current celebrities and notorieties. Cloud, where he died in 1878, in 1798 becamea sculptor in marble and left many remarkable decorative works and statues. His father, the eldest son of the veteran, born at St. His grandfather, who had been a soldier under the First Empire, was distinguished as a sculptorin wood. Master Paintings of the World - Edouard Joseph DantanĮdouward Dantan, who was born in Paris in 1848, seemed to come into art asinto a heritage. ![]()
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