![]() 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. ![]()
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