Growing up in an artistic family-his father, Robert, was a scenographer and his brother Charles François (1792-1865) a sculptor-<a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/celestin-francois-nanteuil">Célestin Nanteuil</a> first apprenticed with <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/jean-charles-langlois">Jean Charles Langlois</a> (1789-1870) and then with Ingres (q.v.). In 1827 he entered the