page_title: Édouard Joseph Dantan
section_title: Major works
hierarchical_section_title: Édouard Joseph Dantan / Major works
context_page_description: Édouard Joseph Dantan was a French painter in the classical tradition. He was widely recognized in his day, although he was subsequently eclipsed by painters with more modern styles.
context_section_description: At first, Dantan's subjects were mainly drawn from classical mythology or religious subjects, as was common in his day. Later he made a number of paintings of scenes from sculpture workshops, familiar from his childhood. He also painted portraits and views of Villerville.
  1869 Episode of the destruction of Pompeii
  1872 The Trinity, chapel of the Hospital in Brezen-on-the-Marne
  1872 Portrait His father, working on a marble bust
  1874 Hercules at the feet of Omphale
  1874 A monk as a wood sculptor, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
  1875 The Quoit-Thrower, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen
  1876 The Nymph Salmacis
  1878 Phrosine et Mélidore after Pierre Paul Prud'hon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
  1879 Fête Foraine de Saint-Cloud
  1880 Christ on the Cross, Church of Dombrowa, Poland
  1880 Un Coin d'atelier, Paris, Palais du Luxembourg (filed in 1925, not found in 1977)
  1880 Un Coin du Salon de 1880 (sale Sotheby's New York, 24 May 1995)
  1881 Le déjeuner du modèle
  1882 Corpus Christi Day
  1884 Burial of a child, Villerville, Musée Malraux, Le Havre
  1885 Shooting their nets
  1886 Entracte Un à la Comedie-Francaise de première un soir, en 1885, Comédie-Française, Paris
  1887 Un moulage sur Nature, Konstmuseum Gothenburg, Gothenburg
  1887 L'Atelier du sculptor
caption: Fête Foraine de Saint-Cloud (1879)
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