Étienne Dantoine
French sculptor
Died when: 72 years 27 days (864 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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 and 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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