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Jean-Pierre DANTAN, known as DANTAN Jeune (1800-1869)....

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[Jean-Pierre DANTAN, known as DANTAN Jeune (1800-1869)]. 20 L.A.S., 1834-1861 and s.d., addressed to him. Nice set of letters addressed to the sculptor about his busts, by some of the models. Eustache Bérat (2, plus 2 letters to Mme Dantan), Prince de Béthune, Bouffé, Prosper Bressant, Castil-Blaze, Louis Comte (on the letterhead of his Théâtre des Jeunes Élèves), Alexandre Dumas fils, Félix Duvert, Félix Feuillet de Conches, Eugène Guinot, Louis Leménil, Neuville, Jules Nicolet, Auguste Panseron, Alexis Pérignon, Rébard des Variétés, Auguste Romieu, Louis-Désiré Véron, Auguste Vestris. Plus a poem A Monsieur Dantan Jeune; 2 portraits drawn in graphite, and a circular signed by the Count of Fernig for the Mont Carmel lottery (1844) on which Dantan drew 3 portraits in graphite; and 2 lithographs.