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Pierre Jean David, genannt David d’Angers (* 12. März 1788 in Angers; † 5. Januar 1856 in Paris) war ein französischer Bildhauer und Medailleur. Er nahm den Namen David d'Angers an, nachdem er 1809 in das Atelier des Malers Jacques-Louis David eingetreten war, um seine Herkunft zum Ausdruck zu bringen und sich von dem Meister abzugrenzen.
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers, dit David d’Angers, né le 12 mars 1788 à Angers et mort le 6 janvier 1856 à Paris, est un sculpteur et médailleur français, représentatif du romantisme dans la sculpture française du XIX e siècle.
Pierre-Jean David (12 March 1788 – 4 January 1856) was a French sculptor, medalist and active freemason. He adopted the name David d'Angers, following his entry into the studio of the painter Jacques-Louis David in 1809 as a way of both expressing his patrimony and distinguishing himself from the master painter.
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (born March 12, 1789, Angers, France—died Jan. 4, 1856, Paris) was a French sculptor, who sought to honour the heroes of modern times by means of an expressive form that could appeal to and inspire a broad public.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
He was elected mayor of a district in Paris in 1848 and then served as a deputy from his native Maine-et-Loire in the Constituent Assembly. For his opposition to Louis-Napoléon's coup d'état in 1851, the sixty-year-old David was exiled for a year. A stroke forced him to stop working in 1855, and he died one year later.
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his almost fifty-year career (1819–1856) David remained true to his conviction that sculptural monuments dedicated to the achievements of great men and women most permanently and vividly ...
In 1817, the young French sculptor Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788–1856) caused a stir at the Paris Salon with his monument to a seventeenth-century French general. Its energetic composition and depiction of the hero in historical costume challenged neoclassical norms and helped to usher in the age of Romanticism.
