David d'Angers
(1788–1856) fransk skulptör
David d'Angers (France, 1788–1856) is listed in the catalogue as a sculptor. By year of birth, David d'Angers belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
David d'Angers was born in Angers and died in Paris. David d'Angers trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included Philippe-Laurent Roland, Jean-Jacques Delusse, and Jacques-Louis David. David d'Angers worked in Paris. Wikidata associates David d'Angers with Neoclassicism and Romanticism. David d'Angers became a member of Institut de France and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Eugène Faure, Guillaume-Alphonse-Harang Cabasson, Pierre-Jules Cavelier, and Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume.
The best-known works include ‘cardiotaph of Jacques Nicolas Gobert’, ‘François-Joseph Lefebvre's tomb’, and ‘Statue of Thomas Jefferson’. The catalogue has 19 works by David d'Angers with free images. The dated works span the years 1801–1989. Works by David d'Angers are held by several collections, among them Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art, Musée Carnavalet, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy, and Museum of the French Revolution.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jean-Pierre Cortot, François-Joseph Heim, Nicolas Gosse, Pascal Coste, and Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld.