DÉTRIER, PIERRE LOUIS (French). Sculptor, born at Vougécourt (Haute-Saône) in 1822 ; pupil of Gayrard. At the Salon of 1869, he exhibited a Portrait-medallion, and others in 1876, 1877, and 1879. One of M. de Massey excited admiration in 1881. Bibliography. — Chavignerie et Auvray, op. cit.
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
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
DAVAU, VICTOR
DAVAU, VICTOR (French). Contemporary Medallist, and Gemengraver, born at Paris ; pupil of Burdy, Fromentin, Bissinger, and Gaillouette. The following are his best known works : Bacchanalia, cameo, 1875; — Dancing, cameo on precious stone, 1876; — Portrait of M. Diaz ; — The Rape of Proserpina, sardonyx, 1877; — Bacchante, sardonyx, 1878; — Faun playing with Bacchante, sard., 1879; — Arms of France, gem on precious stones, 1880; — Cupid, sard., 1881 ; — Passez muscade, sard., 1882; — Love disarme...
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DAVAU, VICTOR (French). Contemporary Medallist, and Gemengraver, born at Paris ; pupil of Burdy, Fromentin, Bissinger, and Gaillouette. The following are his best known works : Bacchanalia, cameo, 1875; — Dancing, cameo on precious stone, 1876; — Portrait of M. Diaz ; — The Rape of Proserpina, sardonyx, 1877; — Bacchante, sardonyx, 1878; — Faun playing with Bacchante, sard., 1879; — Arms of France, gem on precious stones, 1880; — Cupid, sard., 1881 ; — Passez muscade, sard., 1882; — Love disarme...
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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 avocatio...
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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 avocatio...
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DAVID, ADOLPHE
DAVID, ADOLPHE (French). Gem-engraver and Medallist, born at Baugé (Maine-et-Loire), 1828, died at Paris in 1896; pupil of Jouffrov. At the Salon of 1857, he exhibited three Portrait-camei, and a fourth representing the Wreck of the Medusa, and in 1863. Pudicitia resisting Love ; but the work which has rendered the name of the artist famous is the very large cameo — Apotheosis of Napoleon I. — a sardonyx of 24 by 22 centimétres. It reproduces the ceiling painted by Ingres in 1854 in the grand re...
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DAVID, ADOLPHE (French). Gem-engraver and Medallist, born at Baugé (Maine-et-Loire), 1828, died at Paris in 1896; pupil of Jouffrov. At the Salon of 1857, he exhibited three Portrait-camei, and a fourth representing the Wreck of the Medusa, and in 1863. Pudicitia resisting Love ; but the work which has rendered the name of the artist famous is the very large cameo — Apotheosis of Napoleon I. — a sardonyx of 24 by 22 centimétres. It reproduces the ceiling painted by Ingres in 1854 in the grand re...
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DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS
DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS (French). 1748-1825. The reformer of modern French painting, and one of the greatest artists of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning ot the nineteenth. He was a pupil of Boucher, and studied also for five years at the French Academy in Rome, where he produced his first great picture, the “Plague of St Roch ". Returning to France soon after, he was received with all possible honour, admitted to the Academy, lodged at the Louvre, and surrounded by a host of admirer...
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DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS (French). 1748-1825. The reformer of modern French painting, and one of the greatest artists of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning ot the nineteenth. He was a pupil of Boucher, and studied also for five years at the French Academy in Rome, where he produced his first great picture, the “Plague of St Roch ". Returning to France soon after, he was received with all possible honour, admitted to the Academy, lodged at the Louvre, and surrounded by a host of admirer...
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