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(2) Louis-Pierre Deseine
(b Paris, 30 July 1749; d Paris, 11 Oct 1822). Sculptor, brother of (1) Claude-André Deseine. Like his brother, he studied at the Académie Royale, where he was a pupil of Louis-Philippe Mouchy and Augustin Pajou. In 1780 he won the Prix de Rome, and from 1781 to 1784 he was in Rome at the Académie de France, where he absorbed the principles of Neo-classicism and showed an interest in sketching scenes from popular life (sketchbook in Paris, Louvre). Both these tendencies, the idealizing and the realistic, were to remain a feature of his work, finding resolution in his fine portrait sculptures.
Part of the Deseine family
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