David of Angers

See also: David

Pierre Jean David , known as “ David of Angers ”, is a sculptor and sculptor born with Angers the March 12th 1788 and died in Paris the January 5th 1856.

Biography

It began its artistic studies under the direction from Merchant and Jean-Jacques Delusse professors at the central School of Angers between 1806 and 1807. It came young person to Paris, studied under the direction of the sculptors Augustin Pajou and Roland and of the painter Louis David. Gaining large the Price of Rome in 1811 with the low-relief Died of Épaminondas , it left for the Villa Médicis to Rome. Shortly after its return, it carried out the statue of the Grand Cop , which appears in the main courtyard of Versailles; he was elected in 1826 member of the Institut of France and was named, the same year, professor with the École of Painting and Sculpture. He produced a crowd of works of various kinds, monuments, tombs, statues, busts, medallions, low-reliefs, which all are impressed of a true and energetic talent. Preferring reality with the ideal, it stuck especially to the faithful representation of the famous characters.

Recognized at its time, it seems a a little insipid neo-classic sculptor today.

Burning democrat, it was elected in 1848 representing of the people by the Département of Maine-et-Loire. He left the France in 1852 and travelled towards the Greece but feeling his forces to decline, he returned in his fatherland, where he was not long in succumbing. Daniel Halévy read at the Institute in 1857 a Notice on its life and its works .

He was the professor of Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Plows the stubble and Hippolyte Maindron. He is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in Paris.

A gallery installed in an old abbey (All Saints' day abbey) of the 11th century is devoted to him to Angers, near the castle. The Plâtre S of its sculptures are presented there.

Works

With Angers

The gallery of the David museum of Angers is presented in the enclosure of old the Abbaye All Saints' day of Angers. It is in this luminous place, (the roof of this old place of worship is, now an immense canopy), which are presented to the public not less than 30 mouldings of great men, the pediment of the the Pantheon of Paris, 110 busts and 500 medallions. In 1984 works of David of Angers were consolidated in the old museum of beautiful arts to be transferred in Abaye Toussaint.Ont taken part in the consolidation and the restoration from works: Christiane Simon (responsible for the building site) Luc Geoffray, Yves Barret, Jean-Marc Geoffray.

With Paris

Museums

  • the Reception of the duke of Angouleme to Tileries (1827), low-relief (draft), terra cotta, Museum of Louvre
  • the Child with the bunch (1845), statue, marble, museum of Louvre
  • Armand Carrel (1800 - 1836) (1839), statue smaller than natural, bronzes, museum of Louvre
  • the General Bonchamps (1824), statuette, bronzes, museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) (1833), bust, marble, museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of François Arago (1786-1853) (1839), bust in hermès, marble, museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of Ennius Quirimus Visconti (Rome, 1751 - Paris, 1818) (1853), bust in hermès, marble, museum of Louvre
  • Gilbert , low-relief (draft for a tomb), terra cotta, museum of Louvre
  • Freedom (1839), statuette, bronzes, museum of Louvre
  • wounded Philopœmen (1837), statue larger than natural, marble, museum of Louvre: placed in 1837 in the garden of the Tileries
  • Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) (1833), statuette (draft), bronzes, museum of Louvre
  • Victoire in front of a trophy of European weapons (about 1823), low-relief, terra cotta, museum of Louvre
  • Victoire in front of a trophy of Eastern weapons (about 1823), low-relief, terra cotta, museum of Louvre
  • Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe (1831), Musée of Orsay

Others

In province

  • the King Rene , statue, stone, Aix-en-Provence
  • Jean Bart , statue, bronzes, Dunkirk
  • Corneille , statue, Rouen
  • Racine , statue, Ferté-Milon
  • Ambroise Paré , statue, Laval
  • Bernardin of St-Pierre , statue, Le Havre
  • Delavigne , statue, Le Havre
  • the General Bonchamps , Saint-Florent-the-Old tomb, (Maine-et-Loire)
  • Pierre-Paul Riquet (1848), statue, bronzes, Béziers, gone Paul Riquet
  • Colonel de Bricqueville (1845), bust, bronzes, Cherbourg
  • Bas-reliefs and medallions, Béziers, frontage of the theater
  • Monument with Fénelon, Cathédrale of Cambric (1826)

Abroad

  • Busts of Gregoire, Sieyès, Barère, Lamennais, etc

See too

Sources

  • Roger Aubouin, David of Angers or the discipline of the horizon , Goupil, Laval, 1913.
  • Emmanuel Schwartz, Sculptures of the School of the Art schools of Paris. History, doctrines, catalog , 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools, Paris, 2003.

External bonds

  • biography
  • Gallery David of Angers

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