![]() ![]() During the war the family home was burned down. He was given the rank of a sergeant, and was later promoted to lieutenant. In 1870 the Franco-Prussian War interrupted his work, and he enlisted in the defence force. Dantan's first exhibit at the Paris Salon was An Episode in the Destruction of Pompeii in 1869. 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 was a French painter in the classical tradition. ![]()
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