See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• PIERRE JEAN DAVID (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID (1789–1856)  , usually called See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David d'See also:

• ANGERS

Angers, See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French sculptor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Angers on the 12th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1789 . His See also:

• FATHER

father was a sculptor, or rather a See also:

• CARVER, JOHN (x575?-1621)
• CARVER, JONATHAN (c. 1725-1780)

carver, but he had thrown aside the See also:

• MALLET (or MALLOCH), DAVID (?17o5–1765)
• MALLET, PAUL HENRI (173o–18o7)

mallet and taken the See also:

• MUSKET (Fr. mousquet, Ger. Muskete, &c.)

musket, fighting against the See also:

• CHOUANS (a Bas-Breton word signifying screech-owls)

Chouans of La See also:

• VENDEE
• VENDEE, WARS OF THE

Vendee . He returned to his See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade at the end of the See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, to find his customers gone, so that See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young David was born into poverty . As the boy See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up his father wished to force him into some more lucrative and certain way of See also:

• LIFE

life . At last he succeeded in surmounting the opposition to his becoming a sculptor, and in his eighteenth See also:

• YEAR

year See also:

• LEFT

left for See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris to study the See also:

• ART

art upon a See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of eleven francs . After struggling against want for a year and a See also:

• HALF

half, he succeeded in taking the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize at the Ecole See also:

• DES

des See also:

• BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Beaux-Arts . An See also:

• ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

annuity of 600 francs (£24) was granted by the See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality of his native See also:

• TOWN

town in 1809, and in 1811 David's "See also:

• EPAMINONDAS (c. 418-362)

Epaminondas" gained the prix de See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome . He spent five years in Rome, during which his See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm for the See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• CANOVA, ANTONIO (1757-1822)

Canova was often excessive . Returning from Rome about the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the restoration of the Bourbons, he would not remain in the neighbourhood of the Tuileries, which swarmed with See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign conquerors and returned royalists, and accordingly went to See also:

• LONDON

London . Here See also:

• FLAXMAN, JOHN (1755-1826)

Flaxman and others visited upon him the sins of David the painter, to whom he was erroneously supposed to be related . With See also:

• GREAT

great difficulty he made his way to Paris again, where a comparatively prosperous career opened upon him . His medallions and busts were in much See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request, and orders for monumental works also came to him .

One of the best of these was that of See also:

• GUTENBERG, JOHANN (c. 1398–1468)

Gutenberg at See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg; but those he himself valued most were the statue of See also:

• BARRA, or BARRAY (Scand. Baraey, isle of the ocean)

Barra, a drummer boy who continued to See also:

• BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

beat his See also:

• DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

drum till the moment of See also:

• DEATH

death in the war in La Vendee, and the See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek liberator Bozzaris, consisting in a young See also:

• FEMALE

female figure called " Reviving See also:

• GREECE

Greece," of which See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Victor See also:

• HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)
• HUGO, VICTOR MARIE (1802-1885)

Hugo said: " It is difficult to see anything more beautiful in the See also:

• WORLD

world; this statue joins the grandeur of See also:

• PHEIDIAS

Pheidias to the expressive manner of See also:

• PUGET, PIERRE (1622-1694)

Puget." David's busts and medallions were very numerous, and among his sitters may be found not only the illustrious men and See also:

• WOMEN

women of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, but many others both of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany—countries which he visited professionally in 1827 and 1829 . Hismedallions, it is affirmed, number 500 . He died on the 4th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1856 . David's fame rests firmly on his See also:

• PEDIMENT (equivalents, Gr. &ros, Lat. fastigium, Fr. ponton)

pediment of the See also:

• PANTHEON (Lat. pantheum or pantheon; Gr. srav& ov, all-holy, from re, s, all, and Oeor god)

Pantheon, his monument to See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General Gobert in Pere Lachaise and his See also:

• MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble " See also:

• PHILOPOEMEN (253–184 B.C.)

Philopoemen " in•the Louvre . In the Musee David at Angers is an almost See also:

• COMPLETE

complete collection of his works either in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of copies or in the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original moulds . As an example of his benevolence of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character may be mentioned his rushing off to the sick-See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of Rouget de See also:

• LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)

Lisle, the author of the " Marseillaise Hymn," modelling and 'See also:

• CARVING

carving him in marble without delay, making a lottery of the See also:

• WORK

work, and sending to the poet in the extremity of need the seventy-two pounds which resulted from the See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale . . See H . Jouin, David d'Angers et ses relations litteraires (189o); Lettres de P . J . David d'Angers a See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis See also:

• DUPRE, JULES (1812-1889)

Dupre (Paris, 1891); Collection de portraits des contemporains d'apres See also:

• LES

les medaillons de P . J . David (Paris, 1838) .