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Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Pierre Jean David d'Angers (1788 - 1856) was active/lived in France.  Pierre Jean dAngers is known for Monument, portrait bust and medallion sculpture.

At age twenty, with eleven francs in his pocket, Pierre-Jean David d'Angers arrived in Paris and began working in Philippe-Laurent Roland's studio. Later, as a winner of the Prix de Rome*, he studied antiquities in Italy, where he met Antonio Canova and absorbed current trends in Neoclassical* art.

Yet, regarding sculpture as "the recorder of posterity," he often tempered the classicizing elements in his work with a vigorous realism. Back in Paris, David d'Angers created a sensation at the 1817 Salon with his monument to the French general, the prince de Condé. The sculpture's contemporary dress and diagonal movement challenged Neoclassical taste, heralding the Romantic* style that David d'Angers later developed more fully.

During the next two decades, he received numerous important monumental commissions while also sculpting the many portraits that made him one of the era's most influential portrait sculptors. In 1826 he was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-A   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1526 characters.]  Artist bio

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