Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Louis-Marie-Joseph Richard (1791-1879) - ...
Louis-Marie-Joseph Richard (1791-1879), French founder, entered the Réunion des Fabricants in 1818 and was nominated union delegate in 1841. From 1826-1836 he was associated with Quesnel, whom he left to work w... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Nicolò Paganini (1784-1840) - Walters 548...
Nicolò Paganini (1784-1840), Italian violin virtuoso, was enthusiastically received at his first public appearance at age nine, and was composing at age eleven. He served Princess Elisa Baciocchi, Napoleon's si... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800) - Walter...
Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), French general, received his military education in Munich. Resigning his commission in the Austrian army, he returned to France and studied fortification and military science. ... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) - Walters ...
A French physicist and mathematician, André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) was born in Lyon and became a professor at the École Polytechnique in 1805 and later at the Université and the Collège de France. The invento... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Portrait Medallion of Émile Diaz - Walters 27545
Émile Diaz (1835-60) was the son of the painter Virgile-Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1808-76), Barye's friend and colleague in the village of Barbizon. Like his father, Émile trained to become a landscape painter;... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) - Walters 5...
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet and novelist. He was a leader of the Parnassians and an advocate of art for art's sake. He is remembered for his prose fiction, but his work as a journalist and a... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Louis-Marie Larévellière-Lepeaux (1753-18...
Louis-Marie Larévellière-Lepeaux (1753-1824) held numerous political offices. In 1792 he proposed offering French protection to all peoples seeking freedom from persecution and, in 1793, voted for the execution... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835) - Walters 5484...
Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Espinoy (known as Pigault-Lebrun), French novelist, was born in Calais in 1753. He had a stormy youth, but finding his true vocation, he wrote more than twenty plays and a... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766-1834) - Wal...
Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French dramatist, was born in Paris in 1766. Author of republican tragedies, he left France during the Reign of Terror and was arrested upon his return. Later in life, he served Napolea... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Jean-Antoine-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)...
Jean-Antoine-Dominique Ingres, French painter, was born in Montauban in 1780 and went to Paris to study in the studio of David. He won the prix de Rome in 1802. Returning to Paris in 1820, he was appointed prof... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Milo of Croton Devoured by a Lion - Walters 2750...
Milo was an athlete in 6th-century BC Croton (present-day Crotone, Italy). Late in life, he attempted to demonstrate his strength by pulling apart a split tree trunk. The tree closed on his hand, holding him ca... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Lazare-Nicholas-Marguerite Carnot (1753-1...
Lazare-Nicholas-Marguerite Carnot (1753-1823), French statement and scientist, served as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, as a member of the Convention in 1792, and as a minister of war from 1793 t... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Marc-Guillaume-Albert Vadier (1736-1828) ...
Vadier, a politician and member of the Convention-a constitutional and legislative assembly-called for the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1791. During the Thermidorean Reaction, a revolt within the re... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Martial Sauquaire-Souligné (1766-1843) - ...
Martial Sauquaire-Souligné (1766-1843) was a French statesman and member of the Convention.
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - The Empress Josephine (1763-1814) - Walte...
Born Marie-Josèph-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie in Trois-Islets, Martinique, she married Alexandre de Beauharnais. As his widow, she married Bonaparte in 1796. As Empress, her extravagance, rumored infidelity, and... More
Piat Joseph Sauvage - Circular Medallion - Walters 481846
On this medallion, Napoleon is idealized as a Roman emperor crowned with a laurel wreath. He is identified as the French emperor (r. 1804-14 and 1815) and as king of Italy (r. 1805-14). Sauvage, who left his na... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Hippolyte Delaroche (1797-1856) - Walters...
Hippolyte Delaroche (called Paul), was a French painter born in Paris in 1797. He studied under Baron Gros and established himself as a major artist at the Salon of 1822. In 1837 the adverse criticism of his st... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Portrait Medallion of Friedrich Wilhelm H...
This medallion of the great German naturalist, writer, and statesman exhibits D'Angers sensitivity in modeling and his views on facial types. A comparison of this medallion with that of Jean Pierre Boyer (Walte... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Jean Pierre Boyer (1776-1850) - Walters 5...
Inspired by the French Revolution, people of color on the island of St. Dominique (present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) successfully revolted against their French and Spanish colonizers. Haiti, in 1804... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Walters 54845
Pierre-Jean de Béranger, French poet, was born in Paris in 1780. He enjoyed great popularity as a lyric poet, writing political, amatory, philosophical, and satirical songs, the first collection published in 18... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1...
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French painter and member of the Institut. He received man public commissions and executed numerous monumental murals on classical, historical, and religious ... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - François-Joseph Talma (1763-1826) - Walte...
François-Joseph Talma (1788-1856) was a French tragic actor. He established the practice of appearing in historically accurate costume, not the contemporary dress of the day, and created a new method of declama... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - George Sand (1804-1876) - Walters 54831
Amandine-Aurore-Lucie Dupin (pseudonym George Sand), was a French novelist born in Paris in 1804. She had many open liasons with prominent figures and was politically active as well. She is best remembered for ... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Charles Lenormant (1802-1859) - Walters 5...
Charles Lenormant, French archaeologist and historian became passionately interested in archaeology while in Italy preparing for a career in law. Returning to France, he was appointed inspector of fine arts in ... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Antoine-Laurent Jussieu (1748-1836) - Wal...
Antoine-Laurent Jussieu (1748-1836), French botanist, studied medicine and botany in Paris under his uncle Bernard de Jussieu. His work formed the basis for the modern method of botanical classifications. Instr... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Georges Couthon (1755-94) - Walters 59796
Couthon was originally a supporter of a constitutional monarchy for France, but he became associated with Maximilien Robespierre and was named president of the Convention in 1793. Together with Robespierre he i... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766-1834) - Wal...
Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French dramatist, was born in Paris in 1766. Author of republican tragedies, he left France during the Reign of Terror and was arrested upon his return. Later in life, he served Napole... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767...
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767-1830), French novelist, political orator, and politician settled in Paris in 1795 as the protégé of Madame de Staël. A member of the Tribunate from 1799-1802, he was ba... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Louis Boucher Desnoyers - Walters 542389
Louis Boucher Desnoyers was a commissioner in the court of Louis XVI (1774-1792).
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Louis-Charles-Alfred de Musset - Walters ...
Louis-Charles-Alfred de Musset (b. 1810), French poet and playwright, published his first volume of poetry in 1829, when he was but twenty and quickly gained prominence. Musset penned many short stories and pla... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Georges Couthon (1755-94) - Walters 59796...
Couthon was originally a supporter of a constitutional monarchy for France, but he became associated with Maximilien Robespierre and was named president of the Convention in 1793. Together with Robespierre he i... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Marceline-Félicité-Josèphine Desbordes-Va...
Marceline-Félicité-Josèphine Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859) was a French poet and singer who wrote, among her numerous works, "Élegies et romances" and "Élegies et poésies nouveles."
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) - Walters ...
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general and emperor of France, carried out a coup d'etat and reorganized the government. Acclaimed consul for life, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Losing the Russian campaig... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) - Wa...
George Gordon Noel Byron,sixth Baron Byron of Rochdate, (1788-1824) was an English poet. He took a seat in the House of Lords in 1809, but left shortly afterward to tour the Mediterranean, where he gathered mat... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) - Walters ...
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general and emperor of France, carried out a coup d'etat and reorganized the government. Acclaimed consul for life, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Losing the Russian campaig... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Dominique-François-Jean Arago (1786-1853)...
Dominique-François-Jean Arago (1786-1853), is best remembered as an astronomer for his accurate measurements of the planets and as the discoverer of the solar chromosphere. As a physicist, his prinicple work wa... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - George Sand (1804-1876) - Walters 54831 -...
Amandine-Aurore-Lucie Dupin (pseudonym George Sand), was a French novelist born in Paris in 1804. She had many open liasons with prominent figures and was politically active as well. She is best remembered for ... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791...
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French painter, was leader of the school of Romantic realism. He was a pupil of Vernet and then of Guérin, in whose studio he met Delacroix. Criticism of his mas... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755-1841) - ...
The artist has depicted Barère, a politician who was originally a monarchist but, after the failed attempt of Louis XVI and his family to escape France in 1791, became a republican and called for many execution... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) - Walters 5...
Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), French poet and author, wrote his first play at age fourteen. He went on to become the greatest literary figure of the 19th century. He also led a political career.
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) - Walters 54...
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) worked as a typefounder, printer, and editor before achieving fame as a writer with "Le Dernier chouan" in 1829. The creator of the realistic novel, he is considered France's greate... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Robespierre le Jeune (1764-1794) - Walter...
Augustin-Bon Joseph de Robespierre was a lawyer and brother of Maximilien Robespierre, the famous French revolutionary leader. Like his elder brother, he was guillotined in 1794. The inscription reads in transl... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1779-185...
Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1779-1851), Italian composer, settled in Paris where he made his reputation with works performed at the Théâtre-Italien and the Opéra-Comique. Empress Josephine appointed him he... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - George Weimer - Walters 54839
Marguerite-Josephine Weimer (called Mademoiselle George), French actress, was born in Bayeaux in 1787. Her first stage appearance was in Amiens at the age of twelve. While admired for her beauty at her Paris de... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Hippolyte Delaroche (1797-1856) - Walters...
Hippolyte Delaroche (called Paul), was a French painter born in Paris in 1797. He studied under Baron Gros and established himself as a major artist at the Salon of 1822. In 1837 the adverse criticism of his st... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet (1789-1863) - Wa...
Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet (1789-1863) was a French history painter. From 1836-1842 he was employed at Versailles, where he decorated the Constantine gallery. He received the grand medal of honor at the 1855 Univ... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Milo of Croton - Walters 27191
This circular relief has been broken and repaired. It is in a wooden frame, and is a plaster proof of the relief made by Barye in 1819 for the competition at the Ecole des Beaux Arts for the Prix de Rome.
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - François-August-René, Vicomte de Chateaub...
François-August-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) was a French statesman and author. In 1803 Napoleaon appointed him secretary of the legation in Rome, but in a pamphlet written in 1814, he gave his su... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - George Sand (1804-1876) - Walters 542394
Amandine-Aurore-Lucie Dupin (pseudonym George Sand), was a French novelist born in Paris in 1804. She had many open liasons with prominent figures and was politically active as well. She is best remembered for ... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Hippolyte Delaroche (1797-1856) - Walters...
Hippolyte Delaroche (called Paul), was a French painter born in Paris in 1797. He studied under Baron Gros and established himself as a major artist at the Salon of 1822. In 1837 the adverse criticism of his st... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) - Walters 548...
During the French Revolution, Marat published a newspaper, "L'Ami du peuple" (The Friend of the People), that encouraged the public to resort to violence to bring down the monarchy. He was associated with the J... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) - ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist, and scientist, studied art and music while working as a newspaper critic. In 1776, he was appointed privy council to the duke of Saxe-Weimar and w... More
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, Vicomte Barra...
Barras participated in the overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre, who had instituted the Reign of Terror (September 1793-July 1794), the most brutal phase if the French Revolution in which many thousands of peopl... More