Day 12-- Loire Valley region

Museum David d'Angers

Pierre-Jean David (12 March 1788 – 4 January 1856) was a French sculptor, medallist 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.

In the Musée David in Angers is an almost complete collection of his works either in the form of copies or in the original moulds.

As an example of his benevolence of character may be mentioned his rushing off to the sickbed of Rouget de Lisle, the author of the Marseillaise Hymn, modelling and carving him in marble without delay, making a lottery of the work, and sending to the poet in the extremity of need the proceeds.

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