Claude André Deseine

Claude-André Deseine (1740–1823) was a French sculptor, elder brother to Louis-Pierre Deseine.

Deseine was a deaf-mute, whose Republican sensibilities and the exaggerated character of his portrait studies has encouraged Michael Levey to see as a contrast to his brother Louis-Pierre. Deseine was often at the Jacobin Club, where he obtained a prize for his 1791 bust of Mirabeau, and sold numbers of busts of other deputies.

In the night of 17 February 1793, Deseine was recruited by Danton and brought to Sainte-Catherine cemetery to excavate the body of Antoinette Gabrielle Danton, his recently deceased wife, and execute a death mask of a commemorative bust.

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  Bust of Antoinette Gabrielle Danton

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  Bust of Robespierre

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Name	Deseine, Claude Andre
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Date of birth	1740
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Date of death	1823
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