Who was DAVID D'ANGERS, PIERRE JEAN?

DAVID D'ANGERS, PIERRE JEAN (French). Sculptor and Medallist, born at Angers in 1788, died at Paris, 6 Jan. 1856. His father was a wood sculptor of some merit, and from him, young David acquired the taste for the art which was to bring him so prominently before his countrymen. He learned drawing under Delusse, and sculpture under the eminent statuary Roland in Paris. Obliged to work during the day to earn his daily bread, he used to devote the night hours to the pursuit of his favourite avocation. In 1810, he already obtained the second prize of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for sculpture, and with the recommendation of his illustrious friend, the great painter, Louis David, he won the Prix de Rome in 1811 for his Death of Epaminondas. He then made a stay in Italy and studied the art of Canova and Thorvaldsen, as well as the antique models so profusely to be met with in Rome and Naples, and on his return, after a brief sojourn in London, he was commissioned the statue of Condé, which greatly increased his reputation. The monument of Bonchamp, 1821, the bust of Fénelon, 1826, that of Henri II., 1827, were great successes for the artist, whom Charles X. decorated with the Legion of Honour. In 1831, he married the grand-daughter of La Revelliére- Lepeaux, and soon after he was entrusted with the execution of the frieze of the Pantheon. On various occasions, David was mixed up in the political events of his epoch, and only escaped death by fortuitous circumstances. The coup d'Etat of the 2. December 1852 found him a staunch Republican, and he was obliged to go into exile. To this cause, we must attribute his untimely end only three years later. Few artists have produced so many works, and although our interest lies chiefly in his medallic productions, we cannot pass unnoticed the Monument to Botzaris, that to General Foy, the statues of Armand Carrel, Cuvier, Ambroise Paré, David de Pury, the tomb of the Comte de Bourche, which all betray personal inspiration, and a thorough knowledge of antique art. He was a wonderful step ahead of the old school, which lacked the freedom of thought and execution so indispensable to the rendering of true beauty. The following is an almost complete list of the medals and medallions executed by David d' Angers, arranged in their chronological order. The great master was the first to revive the medallic art as understood in the fifteenth century, and to give to his portraits of bronze, expression, reality and life. Of him could Victor Hugo truly say, in his Feuilles d'Automne : Lorsqu'a tes yeux une pensée Sous les traits d'un grand homme a lui, Tu la fais bronze, elle est fixée, Et les peuples disent : C'est lui ! and in Les Rayons et les Ombres, he adds : Michel-Ange avait Rome, et David a Paris. The great artist's " Galerie des Contemporains" was begun in 1827, but his earliest portrait medallions date from 1814. 1814. Herold (Ferdinand), 1793-1833, musician. 1815. Cecilia Odes..., a Roman princess (several varieties). 1817. Vadier, 1735-1828, politician. 1818. Abel de Pujol, 1785-1861, painter; — The same, and his wife; — Auguste Pajou, painter; — Mlle Desnoyers; — Eliza Frey. 1820. Mme Ingres. 1821. Crignier (Louis), painter. 1824. Bodin (Jean-Francois); — Proust (Louis), 1755-1826, chemist. 1825. Dupré, a friend of David d'Angers ; — Ganne (Jean), do; — Maillard (René), do. 1826. Marshal Lefebvre; — Alexandre de Lameth, 1760-1827, politician; — Manuel (Jacques Antoine), 1775-1827, politician; — Casimir Périer, 1777-1832, statesman (2 var.); — Baraguié; — Ingres; — Alexandre de Lameth. 1827. Rouget de Lisle, 1760-1836, author of the Marseillaise; — Gothier (L. Jérôme), 1746-1830, politician; — Keratry, 1769-1859, writer and politician; — Jourdan, 1762-1833, French marshal ; — Granet, 1775-1849, painter; — Victor Pavie, poet. 1828. Prud'homme, 1732-1830, journalist; — Abbé Grégoire, 1750-1831 ; — Victor — Hugo, 1802-1887, poet (several varieties) ; Sainte-Beuve, 1804-1870, literary critic ; — Alfred de Vigny, 1797-1863, poet; — Delphine Gay (Mme de Girardin), 1804-1855, poetess; — Mérimée (Prosper), 1803-1870, writer; — Thierry (Augustin), 1795-1856, historian; — Dumesnil (Constant), 1774-1860, naturalist ; — Fabrier, 1782-1855, general ; — Brunel (Marc Isambard), 1769-1849, engineer of the Thames tunnel ; — Eugéne Devéria, 1780-1865, painter; — Achille Devéria, 1800-1857, painter ; — Laure Devéria, sister of the two preceding ; — Céleste Motte (Mme Achille Devéria) ; — Schnetz (Jean-Victor), 1787-1870, painter; — Lamartine, 1792-1869, poet and politician. 1829. Victor Cousin, 1794-1867, philosopher; — Alexandre Dumas, 1803-1870, novelist; — Emile Deschamps, 1791-1870, poet ; — Delacroix (Frédéric Victor Eugéne), 1798-1863, painter; Mme Haudebourt-Lescot ; — Mme Victor Hugo; — Princess Salmdick, 1767-1845, poet; — Rossini, 1792-1868, Italian composer; — Ampére, 1775-1836, mathematician; — Labbey de Pompiéres, 1751-1831, politician; — Delaure, 1755-1835, historian; — O'Connor (Arthur), grandson of Condorcet ; — Goethe, 1749- 1832, German poet and philosopher; — Mickiewicz, 1798-1856, Polish poet; — Captain Franklin (John), 1786-1847, English naval officer; — Haudaudine (Pierre), 1756-1846, politician. 1830. Daunou, 1761-1840, politician ; — Monge, 1746-1818, one of the founders of the Paris Ecole polytechnique ; — Lamartine (illustrated) ; — Chateaubriand ; — Sismondi, 1773-1842, historian ; — George Sand, 1804-1876, novelist; — Roulin, 1796-1874, naturalist; — Ballanche (Pierre-Simon), 1776-1847, philosopher; — Béranger, poet; — Couturier de Vienne, journalist; — Chevreul, 1786-1895, chemist; — Eynard (Jean- Gabriel), 1775-1843, orientalist ; — Mme Belloc, the translator of Byron into French ; — Taylor (Isidore Sévérin Juste, baron) 1788-1881, explorer, and writer; — Daunou; — Testutt de Tracy, 1754-1836, philosopher; — Lenormant (Charles), 1802- 1859, archeologist and numismatist; — Gerando, 1772-1842, economist; — Géricault, 1791-1824, painter; — Gérard, 1770-1837, painter; — Mlle Georges, 1786-1867, dramatic actress; — Merlin de Thionville, 1762-1833, Governor of Mayence under the Revolution; — Merlin de Douai, 1754-1838, lawyer; — Marat, 1774-1794, demagogue; — Thibaudeau, 1765-1854, politician; — Abbé de Pradt, 1759-1837, politician; — Sieyes, mayor of Paris; — Condorcet (M.), Ant. Nic. Caritat, marquis de), 1743-1794, philosopher; — Mme Condorcet O'Connor; — Panis, 1757-1832, politician, — Desgenettes; — Hulin (Pierre Auguste, comte), 1758-1841, general, Governor of Paris; — Guizot, 1787-1874, deputy, minister, etc. ; — La Fayette (2 var.) ; — Laffite, 1767-1844, politician ; — Chauvelin, 1766-1832, politician; — Benjamin Constant, 1767-1830, writer; — Royer Collard, 1763-1845, politician; — Vogel de Vogelstein, 1788-1868, German painter; — Spontini, 1779-1851, Italian composer; — Lady Morgan ; — Mrs Amelia Opie, 1769- 1853, English novelist; — Stammann (Friedrich), German architect; — Acosta, col onel, and scholar (Republic of Santa-Fé); — Hahnemann, 1755-1843, physician, homoeopath; — Santander, 1782-1840, first president of New Granada; — Colettis, 1784-1846, Greek statesma n. 1831. Alfred de Musset, 1810-1857, poet; — Lamennais, 1782-1854, writer; — Etienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 1772-1844, naturalist; — Edgar Quinet, 1803-1875, writer; — Charles Nodier, 1780-1844, writer; — Mme Saint-Elme, 1776-1845, authoress; —Boulay-Paty, 1804- 1864, poet; — Casimir Delavigne ; — Roche, 1801-1834, publicist; — Pigault-Lebrun, 1753-1835, novelist; — Theodore Pavie, born 1811, orientalist; — Proust; — Léon Cogniet, painter ; — Levasseur de la Sarthe, 1747-1834, politician; — Kleber (general), 1753-1800; — Capt. Miel, 1777-1830; — General Condorcet O'Connor; — J. A. Washington, an Englishman (Fide F. P. Weber, Medals and Medallions, &c); — L. J. A. de Potter, 1786-1859, Belgian politician; — Mme de Potter; — Carus, 1789-1869, physician and painter; — Dannecher, 1759-1841, German sculptor; — Humboldt, 1769-1859. Prussian naturalist, astronomer, and traveller; — Klense, 1784- 1864, Bavarian architect ; — Dumont, of Geneva ; — Capt. Levy, American seaman; — Sir John Ross, 1777-1856, English admiral and explorer; — General Bonaparte. 1832. Aza?s (P. Hyacintne), 1766-1845, philosopher; — Leroux (Pierre), 1798-1871, philosopher; — Mme Voiart, 1786-1866, authoress; — Armand Carrel, 1800-1836, publicist; — Cormenin, 1785-1868, politician; — Jules Janin, 1804- 1874, critic and novelist; — Jean de Bry, 1760-1843, politician; — Choudieu, 1761- 1840, politician; — Mme Roland, 1754-1793, the revolutionary publicist ; — Ferry (Gabriel), politician ; — Boulay de la Meurthe; — Comte Réal, 1765- 1834, politician ; — Pasquier (Etienne, duc), 1767-1862, statesman; — Gros, artist; — Paul Delaroche, 1797- 1856, painter; — Augustin (Jean-Baptiste), 1759-1832, painter in miniatures; — Drolling, 1785-1851, painter; — Bowring, 1792-1872, English diplomatist and writer; — Pentland (John), English naturalist; — William Edwards, 1777-1842, physician, economist, etc. ; — Sir Sidney Smith, 1764-1840, English admiral; — Mina, 1781-1836, Spanish general. 1833. Augustin ; — Mme David d' Angers ; — Comte de Lasteyrie, 1759-1849, economist ; — Mme de Lasteyrie; — A. de Gisors, 1796-1866, architect; — Mme de Gisors; — Arnault, 1766-1834, poet; — Auguste Barbier, born in 1805, poet ; — Droz (Joseph), 1773-1850, philosopher; — Duvernoy, 1775-185 5, naturalist; — Beyle (Henry), 1783-1842, novelist (Stendhal) ; — Barginet, novelist ; — Savary (Julien), politician and writer ; — Foucner (Paul), 1810-1875, poet; — Dupré (Augustin), 1748-1833, medallist; — Mlle Mars ; — André Etienne, drummer of Arcole, — Roederer, 1754-1835, politician; — Sanquaire-Souligné, 1766-1843, politician; — Bailleul, 1762-1843, publicist, etc.; — Charles Comte, 1782-1837, politician; — Baudin, 1784-1854, admiral; — Bérard, 1783-1859, politician; — Bronsted, born in 1781, a Danish antiquary; — Candolle, 1778-1841, Genevese botanist; — Retsch (Moritz), 1779-1857, German painter; — Reinhard (Comte Charles Frédéric), 1761-1838, German statesman ; — Naureuther, born in 1801, German painter; — Valdes, Spanish general. 1834- Condorcet; — Robert David d'Angers, junior; — Cuvier; — Michelet, 1798-1874, historian; — Cavaignac (Godefroy), 1798-1845, publicist; — Philippon, 1800-1862, draughtsman ; — Mme Allart, novelist ; — Richard (Louis), the caster of the series of medallions by David d'Angers; — Charlet, 1792- 1848, painter; Jullien de Paris, 1775-1848, publicist; — Barrére, 1755-1841, politician; — Lawey, 1766-1842, chief surgeon of the grande Armée ; — Renoult, military surgeon ; — Gouvion Saint-Cyr ; — Morand (Comte L. L. Ch. A. A.), 1770-1835 ; — Caroline Murat, 1782-1839, ex-queen of Naples; — Ludwig Tieck; — Friedrich Tieck, 1776-1851, German sculptor; — Schelling, 1775-1854, German philosopher; — Friedrich, 1774- 1840, German landscape painter; — Schinkel, 1781-1841, Prussian architect ; — Rietschell, 1804- 1861, Saxon sculptor; — Boettiger, 1760-183 5, German antiquary; — Brandt, 1789-1845, Neuchâtel medallist ; — Blumenbach, 1752-1841, naturalist (several varieties); — Hummel, 1778-1837, German musician; — Lindman, 1780-1854, Saxon statesman and astronomer ; — Haering, 1798- 1843, German novelist and tragic author; — Chamisso, 1781-1836, German poet ; — Muller, chancellor of the court of Weimar; — Coudray, architect; — Rivers (George Pitt), 1810-1866, English statesman; — John Wilkes, 1727-1797, English writer and politician. 1835. Ambroise Paré ; — Marmier (Xavier), traveller, and writer; — Percier, 1764-1840, architect; — Corbiére, 1793-1875, novelist; — Robespierre, 1759-1794, the Revolutionary leader ; — Sergent-Marceau, 1751-1834, politician; — Oudot, 1760-1840, politician ; — Rouget de Lisle ; — Rauch ; — Ramey, junior, 1796- 1852, sculptor. 1836. Carnot, 1753-1823, statesman; — Pouqueville, 1770-1838, historian; — Billard ; — Comte de Pastoret, 1791-1857, writer; — Sylvestre de Sacy, 1756-1838, orientalist; — Dulong, 1785- 1838, chemist; — Laurent de Jussieu, 1748-1836, naturalist; — Henriquel-Dupont, engraver; — Depaulis, 1792-1867, medallist; — Lehreton, poet ; — Pouqueville ; — Kératry ; — Thérése Olivier; — Niemcewicz, 1757-1841, Polish poet and patriot; — Czartoryski (Prince Adam), 1770-1861, Polish statesman. 1837. General Bonaparte; — Talma; — Adrien Maillard, born in 1815, lawyer; — Taillandier, 1797-1870, lawyer; — Liebig, 1803-1873, German chemist; — Spurzheim, 1766-1833, German phrenologist ; — Ludwig Boerne; — Baudissin, 1789-1868, translator of Shakespeare into German; — George Canning, 1770- 1827, English statesman; — Alberto Nota, 1775-1847, Italian dramatic author. Medallions executed before 1838. Auguste Jal and Mme Aspasie Jal; — Gay-Lussac, 1778-1850, chemist and physician; — Lesson, 1794-1849, traveller and naturalist ; — Volney ; — La Grange, 1738-1813, mathematician; — Lemercier, 1772-1840, tragic author and novelist; — Lacépéde; — Orfila (Matteo), 1787-1854; — Béclard; — Gustave Planche, 1808-1857,. critic; — J- J. Ampére, 1800-1864, historian; — Senancourt, 1770-1846, moralist and writer; — Reynaud, 1806-1863, philosopher; — Mme d'Abrantés (duchesse d'), 1784-1836, novelist; — Mme Valdor, 1796-1871, poet; — Mme de Bruyéres, poet; — Desalle, writer; — Milbert, lawyer ; — Raoul (Max), critic ; — La Revelliére-Lepeaux ; — Carnot; — Robespierre (young); — Le Bas, 1766-1794, politician; — Comte de Las Cases, 1766-1842, Napoleon's companion in exile at St. Helena; — Duc de Bassano, 1763-1835 , minister of Napoleon I. ; — Manuel; — Dupont de l'Eure, 1767-1855, politician; — Siméon, 1749-1842, politician; — Dupin, 1783-1865, politician ; — Horace Vernet, 1789- 1863, painter; — Ary Scheffer, 1795-1853, painter; — A. Johannot, 1800-1837, painter; — Alavoine, 1776-1834, architect; — Pemhaud, 1772-1832, architect; — Visconti; — Villemin, antiquary; — Mme Pasta, 1798-1865, Italian actress and singer; — Lord Byron, 1788-1824 ; — Jeremiah Bentham ; — Lady Somerville, English mathematician and astronomer; — Cooper; — C. Botta, 1766-1837, Italian historian; — Werner, 1763- 1823, German poet. 1838. Ferdinand de Lasteyrie ; — Héléne David d'Angers (at the age of nineteen months) sev. var. ; — Serres, 1786-1866, professor of anthropology ; — Raspail, born in 1794, physician, chemist, etc.; — Magendie, 1782-1855, physiologist; — Marquis de Pastoret, 1756-1840, minister of Justice under Louis XVI. ; — Meneval, 1778-1850, librarian of Napoleon I. ; — Langlois, numismatist ; — Paul Huet, 1804-1869, painter ; — J. Temple Leader, born 1810, Member of the English Parliament; — Monge ; — Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ; — Lallemand, 1790-1853, physician; — Arago ; — Thénard, 1777-1857, chemist; — Becquerel senior, chemist; — Mme Tastu, born in 1795, poetess; — Mme Récamier, 1777-1849; — Quatremére de Quincy, 1755-1849, antiquary; Poussin (Nicolas), 1594-1665, painter; — Godefroy, engraver; — Desnoyers, senior; — Desnoyers, 1779-1857, engraver; — Palliére, painter; — Louis Boulanger, 1806-1867, painter; — Collas, 1795-1859, engineer, inventor of the Collas process for reducing sculptures; — Lepelletier-Saint-Fargeau, 1763-1832, politician ; — Ragmey, a judge under the Revolution ; — Souberbielle, 1754-1848, politician; — Lefebvre; — Berzelius, Swedish chemist; — Bolivar, 1780-1830, the Liberator, founder of Bolivia. 1839. Deville (Jean-Achille), 1789-1875, archaeologist ; — Poterlet (Hippolyte), painter; — Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1780-1846, naturalist; — André Chénier, poet; — Barthélemy, 1797-1867, poet; — Mme Desbordes-Valmore, 1786-1858, poet and novelist; — Bouchotte, 1754-1840, Minister of — war under the First Republic; Lechevallier; — Claudet, 1763-1810, statuary; — Lemot, 1771- 1827, statuary ; — Houdon, 1741-1828, statuary ; — Flaxman (John), 1755-1826, English statuary; — Frieur-Duvernoy, 1763-1832, one of the founders of the Ecole polytechnique; — General Petit, 1772- 1856, governor of the lnvalides; — Gourgeaud, 1783-1852, companion in exile of Napoleon I.; — Masséna, 1758-1817, marshal of France; — Suchet. 1840. Espercieux, 1760-1840,statuary; — Ambroise Paré ; — Pariset, 1770-1847, scientist; — J. Dumas, born in 1800, chemist ; — Letronne, 1797-1848, geographer, archaeologist ; — Burnouf, 1801- 1852, orientalist; — Biot, 1774-1862, astronomer; — Duc de Luynes, 1812-1867, antiquary ; — Berton, 1767-1844, composer; — Cherubini, 1760-1842, Italian composer; — Espercieux; — Fortoul (Hippolyte), 1811-1856, writer; — Ch. Didier, 1805- 1864, writer; — Delange Saint-Cyr, 1766-1840, field marshal; — Travot; — Exelmans, 1775-1852, marshal of France; — Montholon, 1783-1850, general, and companion in exile of Napoleon I. ; — Grouchy: — Marshal Victor, 1766-1841, duke of Bellune; — Bertrand, 1773-1844, general, and companion in exile of Napoleon I.; — Garnier-Pagés senior, 1801-1841, politician ; — Venedey —(Jacob), German writer; — Dwernicki, 1779-1857, Polish general; Boissy d'Anglas, 1756- 1826, president of the Convention nationale; — Gohier; — La Tour d'Auvergne, 1743-1800, first grenadier of France; — Laplace (Marquis de), 1749-1827, geometer; — Mme Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ; — Broussais, 1772-1838, chief of the Ecole physiologique; — Puget, 1622-1694, statuary; — Moitte, 1747-1810, statuary; — Schlegel, 1767-1844, German poet, critic and linguist. 1841. Baron de Prony, 1755-1839, mathematician; — Pelouse, 1817-1876, chemist; — Civiale, 1792-1867, surgeon; — Elie de Beaumont, 1798- 1874, geologist; — Granville, 1804-1847, painter. 1842. Marshal Soult, 1769-1851; — Dutrochet, 1776-1847, physician and naturalist; — Trélat (Ulysse), born in 1795, politician ; — Magu ; — P. Lebrun, 1785-1873, tragic writer ; — Paul de Kock, 1794-1871, novelist; — Bosio, 1767-1843, statuary; — Louis David, 1748-1825, painter; — Auber, 1782-1870, composer; — Wilhelm (surnamed Bocquillon), 1779-1842, composer; — Lacroix (Sylvestre Francois), 1765-1843, mathematician; — Mme Arago, 1765-1845 ; — Monteil, 1769-1850, historian. 1843. Yves Bernard, 1752- 1842, writer; — Poinsot, 1777-1859, mathematician ; — Lakanal; — Artaud de Montor, 1772-1869, antiquary; — Brongniart, 1770-1847, geologist; — Boissonnade, 1774-1857, Hellenist; — Cauchy (Auguste Louis, baron), 1789-1857, mathematician; — Balzac, 1779-1850, novelist (several varieties); — Esquiros, 1811- 1876, poet ; — Louis Blanc, historian; — Scribe, 1791-1861, dramatic author; — Calamatta, 1802-1869, engraver; — Henri Lehmann, born in 1814, painter; — Mme Segalas, poet ; — Comtesse de la Valette (several varieties) ; — Pepe, 1782-1856, Italian general. 1844. The four sergeants of La Rochelle ; — Commemoration of the brothers Bandiera ; — Marie-Joseph Chenier, poet ; — Poney, born in 1821, poet; — Gigoux, born in 1806, painter; — Barbés, 1809- 1870, politician; — Lelewel, 1787-1861, historian and numismatist. 1845. Marshal Ney, 1769- 1815, medal with R. and medallion; — E. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire ; — Lordat, 1773-1862, physiologist; — Fresnel; — Roussin, 1781-1854, admiral; — Morel (Benjamin), politician; — Théophile Gauthier, 1808-1872, critic, novelist, &c. ; — Isabey, senior, 1764-1855, painter in miniatures; — Adéle Hugo; — Mme Fortoul ; Jean-Pierre, 1776-1850, president of the republic of Ha?ti; — Carl Ritter, 1779-1859, Russian geographer and writer; — Lavoisier, 1743-1794, chemist ; — Berthollet (Claude-Louis, comte), 1747-1832, chemist; — Dureau de la Malle, 1777-1859, poet; — Jean Reboul, 1796-1864, poet; — Raoul-Rochette ; — Dubois, physician ; — Mme Camille Bodin (pseud. Jenny Bastide), novelist; — Guérin, 1774-1833, painter; (pseud. Jenny Bastide), novelist; — Guérin, 1774-1833, painter; — Prud'hon (Pierre-Paul), 1760-1823, painter (varieties with bust facing or in profile); — Cartellier, 1757-1831, statuary; — Roland, 1746-1816, sculptor; — Dupaty, 1771-1825, sculptor ; — Julien (Pierre), 1731-1804, sculptor; — Leysener, 1728-1781, German sculptor; — Reboul de p?z6nas, 1750-1839, geologist; — Cassanyes, politician; — Guyton de Monvaux, 1737-1816, politician ; — Garat, 1749-1833, politician; — Camille Jordan; — Laetitia Bonaparte, 1750-1829, mother of Napoleon I.; — Quetelet, 1796- 1874, Belgian astronomer and chemist; — James Watt, 1736-1819, Scotch engineer. 1846. Armand Marrast, 1801 -1852, journalist. 1847. Général d'Andigne; — Blainville, 1777-1840, naturalist; Sixdeniers (Alexandre Vincent), medal- engraver; — Thoré, 1807-1869, critic; — Baronne de Forget. 1849. Saint Just. 1850. Wilhelm; — Universal Suffrage (2 var.) ; — Mathieu de Dombasles, 1778-1843, agronomist; — Liberty (a medal for Poland); — Lalande, 1732-1807, astronomer; — Jomard, 1777- 1862, geographer, traveller, &c. ; — Couthon ; — Eugéne de Beauharnais, 1781-1824, viceroy of Italy ; — Mme Carrier. 1851. Daniel O'Connor, † 1851, grandson of Condorcet; — Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ; — Gerbert (Pope Sylvester II.); — Héléne de la Valette. 1852. Canaris, 1792-1877, Greek admiral; — Mme Canaris; — The three Graces. 1853. Mrs Beecher Stowe, 1814-1872, American novelist ; — Le Clére, 1785-1853, architect. 1854. Rosa Bonheur, 1823-1899, painter; — Manin (Daniel), 1804-1857, president of the Venetian Republic. Undated Medallions, now in the Musée David. Victor Hugo; — Savigny, 1779-1861, naturalist; — Laromiguiére, 1756-1837, philosopher; — Anquetil-Duperron, 1731-1805, orientalist; — Bichat; — Empress Joséphine, 1763-1814; — Callamare, 1769-1821, sculptor; — Dejoux, 1731-1816, sculptor ; — Champin, 1796-1860, painter; — Rabeuf, 1763-1797, politician ; — Rampon, 1759-1842, general; — Robespierre (with laureate head); — Romme, 1750-1795; politician; — Labédoyére, 1786-1815, colonel; — Les Jumeaux de la Réole, 1760-1815; — Boulay-Paty, 1763-1830, lawyer; — Schiller, 1759-1805, German poet and historian; — Volta, 1745-1828, inventor of the Volta battery. Undated Medallions, not in the Musée David. Henri de Latouche, 1785-1855, poet; — Dureau de la Malle, 1742-1807, translator of Tacitus into French; — Poisson, 1781-1840, geometer; — Mne Visconti ; — Germain Pilon, 1515-1590, sculptor; — Paganini; — Barras, 1765-1829, president of the Directoire; — Talot, politician; — La Fayette; — Choiseul, 1760-1838, governor of the Louvre; — Buonarroti, 1751-1837, politician; — Kosciusko, 1746-1816, Polish general ; — Claudine Potocha. Patterns forr Medallions. Charbonier de la Guesnerie; — Mlle Marie Cornélie Falcon, public singer; — Garnier (Etienne Barthélemy), painter; — Gastine (Civique de), publicist; — Huyot (Jean Nicholas), architect; — Meynier (Charles), painter; — Wains-Desfontaines, poet ; and ninety others, unknown. The best known in England of these medallions are those of Sir John Bowring, Sir M.I. Brunel, Lord Byron, George Canning (illustrated), John Flaxman, Sir John Franklin, Amelia Opie, George Pitt Rivers, Sir John Ross, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, J. Temple Leader, James Watt, John Wilkes, John Pentland, Lady Sydney Morgan, Mary Somerville, and James Aug. Washington, all mentioned by Dr F. P. Weber, who adds, that most of them “were cast by L. Richard, and bear his signature on the back. " L. Richard was the favourite founder and friend of David d'Angers, and there is a medallic portrait of him, signed " David " 1834 “. Ferdinand Liard, so well known by his casts of early " Italian medals in the South Kensington Museum and elsew here, " is the son-in-law of Richard, and cast the medallion of Darwin. " F. Liard's son, A. Liard, is now much employed by the Paris medallists". David d'Angers, will remain a great figure in the History of Art of the XIXth century. According to the judgment of a modern critic, he belongs especially to that school of sculpture that delights in blending the spirit of Greek Art with the forms required to give historical accuracy to the impersonations of our period. He has brought sculpture to be most useful to society at large, by modelling hundreds of medallions of the celebrated men of his age, in which he has not only attained a rare degree of external resemblance, but also succeeded in unmistakably fixing the most recondite features of character. He paved the way for the present French school of medallists whose fine works are attracting so much welldeserved attention. The celebrity of the great artist would be assured should we possess only his wonderful gallery of bronze portraits; these however form but a small portion of his work. Beautiful statues in marble and bronze, chiselled by that master-hand, may be admired in nearly every country ; and he has, perhaps, not altogether without reason, been called the Phidias of modern times. In an article, published in the Revue de Paris (May 1899) M. G. Lecomte has analysed the art of David d'Angers in such a masterly way, that I cannot omit reproducing here the few lines he has devoted to this artist : " Certains critiques, un peu superficiels, répétent volontiers que les médaillons de David d'Angers influencérent heureusement la glyptique. II faut s'entendre. Si l'on veut dire que ces oeuvres si belles de vérité, de profondeur, conseillérent aux artistes l'observation pénétrante et le modelé hardi, on ne se trompe point. Les médaillons de David d'Angers sont de bon conseil, comme toutes les ceuvres riches d'accent. lis le furent surtout au temps de David d'Angers, alors que tant de graveurs en medailles modelaient avec indecision, ne savaient pas exprimer l'in"timite' morale d'une physionomie. David d'Angers, comme Rude, comme Barye, comme Carpeaux, donna á ses contemporains la grande lecon qui se dégage toujours des oeuvres originales et fortes. Mais prétendre plus, serait commettre une erreur. Les qualités qui font si passionnants les médaillons de David ne sont pas absolument celles qui conviennent á la gravure en médailles. On pourrait m?me dire qu'elles leur sont opposées. Ce que David d'Angers cherchait, c'était, par un modelé énergique jusqu'á la brutalité, l'accentuation violente du caractére, l'âpre mise des dominantes, en un mot l'effet. “Son modelé fougueux, tourmenté, avec ses creusements brusques, ses dures saillies, donnait á ses médaillons une lumiére crue. Et l'on a des raisons de penser que l'art de la médaille s'accommoderait mal de ses trous d'ombre, de ses reliefs véhéments. La glyptique, qui veut la décision, n'admet guére l'emportement. Par leurs excavations et leurs aspérites, les médaillons de David d'Angers eussent réalisé des médailles expressives sans doute, mais dénuées du go?t, de la simplicité, de l'harmonie sereine, qui sont indispensables dans cet art. “Et cela est si vrai que, lorsque David d'Angers voulut par hasard composer des médailles, il se soumit sans peine á des lois que son bel instinct lui révéla aussitôt. Au musée du Louvre, on en peut juger. II nous a légué des médailles aussi vivantes que le furent ses médaillons, mais d'une simplicité plus calme. C'est aussi aigu, aussi pénétrant, mais la maniére est toute différente. Si l'on regarde ses jolies médailles d'aprés des adolescents, des jeunes femmes, des enfants, son admirable portrait de Charles Percier, d'un caractére si accentué et pourtant traité avec tant de discrétion et de go?t, sa médaille si bien composée des quatre sergents de La Rochelle, on voit comme aisément un créateur intelligent sait adapter sa vision aux exigences d'un art. Mais, en somme, David d'Angers a fait peu de médailles. C'est par ses médaillons, plus regardés et plus connus, qu'il est resté dans l'histoire de l'art. “Aussi nous semble-t-il un peu risqué de dire que David d'Angers révolutionna la glyptique. II eut simplement l'influence incontestable qui appartient toujours aux maitres, et que des sculpteurs comme Rude,Carpeaux et Rodin, par exemple, exercérent de la m?me facon á des moments divers de ce siécle. II n'y a pas d'analogie directe entre I'oeuvre de David d'Angers et l'art si spécial de la gravure en médailles". Bibliography. — H. Jouin, David d'Angers, sa vie et son oeuvre. — F. P. Weber, Medals and Medallions of the XIX. Cent.. 1894. — Roger Marx, Les médailleurs francais depuis 1789, Paris, 1897. — Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historiqne, ?c. de Maine-et- Loire. — Francois Grille, Notice biographique sur David d'Angers. — Adrien Maillard, Etude, &c — P. Hawke, Notice sur deux artistes angevins (Bulletin de la Société industrielle d'Angers). — Victor Pierre, Un mot sur David d'Angers. — F. Halévy, Notice. — Victor Pavie, Goethe et David. Souvenirs d'un voyage d Weymar. — David d'Angers el ses relations littéraires, publiées par H. Jouin. — Eug. Marc, L'oevre de David d'Angers, croquis d'aprés nature. — Les Médaillons de David d'Angers réunis et publiés par son fils. — Grande Encyclopédie. — Roger Marx, Les Médailleurs contemporains en France et d l'Etranger, Paris, 1901.

Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904