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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
Artist: Pierre Jean David d'Angers (French, Angers 1788–1856 Paris) Date: after model 1838. Culture: French. Medium: Bronze, cast. Dimensions: Diameter: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm) Classification: Medals and Plaquettes. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1908. Accession Number: 08.70.1.
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.
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.
