Jean-Pierre Dantan II (1800 - 1869)

Jean-Pierre Dantan II

Jean-Pierre Dantan the Younger was a French caricaturist sculptor; younger brother of the academic sculptor Antoine Dantan. He studied at the Paris Academy of Arts and under François Joseph Bosio. His specialty was portrait busts, in which he conveyed the external features and character of his models with amazing fidelity.

Jean-Pierre Dantantant showed a rare ability in his work to notice the comic features of their faces and reproduce them with equanimity and a sense of proportion without offending the self-esteem of the originals who posed before him.