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(1) Claude-André Deseine
(b Paris, 6 April 1740; d Petit Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, 30 Dec 1823). Sculptor. Although deaf and mute, he studied from 1775 at the Académie Royale, Paris. He subsequently pursued a moderately successful career as a portrait sculptor, working in a style that combined Neo-classical sobriety with a personal ability to capture an expressive likeness. Among his earlier works, his bust of Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt (plaster; Paris, priv. col.) and a statuette of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (untraced) were exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance of 1782. During the French Revolution he made a number of busts of Republican leaders, including Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (plaster, 1791; Rennes, Mus. B.-A. & Archéol.), Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau (marble, 1793; Bourges, Mus. Berry), Jean-Paul Marat (1793; untraced) and Maximilien Robespierre (terracotta, 1793; Visille, Mus. Révolution Fr.). In 1797 he executed a bust of Napoleon Bonaparte (untraced), but he seems to have retired from artistic life c. 1801.
Part of the Deseine family
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