 Pierre Jean David is primarily known as Pierre Jean David d'Angers
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from Auction House Records.
Buste en marbre blanc en Hermès représentant Marie-Joseph-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834)
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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 t (showing 500 of 1534 characters). |
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