Édouard Joseph Dantan

1848–1897 · Symbolism

Édouard Joseph Dantan was a French painter in the classical tradition. He was widely recognized and successful, even receiving grudging respect from a contemporary Modernist painter and critic Walter Sickert.

10 paintings

• Entracte d'une première à la Comédie-Française (1885)
• Building a Glasshouse (1890)
• Un entracte à la Comédie-Française un soir de première, en 1885 (1886)
• Le temps passe vite (1895)
• My Father's Studio (1881)
• A Casting from Life (1887)
• A Restoration (1891)
• Fasting the Nets (1885)
• Le Paradou (after Emile Zola) (1883)
• A corner of the sculptor's workshop (1880)