High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean-Pierre Dantan (known as Dantan the Younger) Paris 1800 - Baden-Baden 1869 was a French portrait sculptor. His subjects include include many famous figures from the realms of politics (for example, Talleyrand, William Douglas), music and the arts (Beethoven, Paganini, Verdi, Liszt, Berlioz), and literature (Victor Hugo, Balzac). He is said to be the inventor of the sculptural caricature.