A Life in Stone: The Portraits of Louis-Pierre Deseine Louis-Pierre Deseine, born in Paris in 1749 and passing away in the same city in 1822, occupies a fascinating, if sometimes overlooked, position within the transition from Rococo elegance to Neoclassical restraint. He wasn’t a revolutionary innovator like Canova or David, but rather a supremely skilled craftsman who captured the spirit of his age through an extraordinary series of…