Étienne Dantoine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French sculptor
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Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Étienne Dantoine
- Étienne Dantoine, also Etienne d'Antoine, (20 February 1737 – 23 March 1809) was a French sculptor. Born in Marseille, where he studied drawing and sculpting at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture while apprenticed to a potter.
- After a stay in Rome where he won a Prix de Rome, he returned to France and sculpted the funeral monument of Bishop Inguimbert (1774), which was placed in the choir of the chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu of Carpentras.
- He then received an annuity granted by the city of Montpellier to execute for them a fountain of The Three Graces (1776) in Place de la Comédie.
- He then moved to Paris where he married and returned to Marseille.
- Misfortunes soon hit the artist: his wife died, and the city of Montpellier stopped paying him his pension.
- In 1799 he was admitted to the Académie de Marseille.
- Dantoine executed exhibitions between 1800-1803 with a draft public monument representing Languedoc in the form of a connecting Engineering Ocean and the Mediterranean, an allusion to the channel and the two seas.
- He also presented a globe of the world upon which Justice, Wisdom and Prudence presided.
- In 1806 he sculpted the cenotaph of General Desaix, consisting of a marble urn on the top of a granite column, which now resides at Château Borély.
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