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Born in Angers, the son of a wood sculptor, David went to Paris and learned drawing from Delusse and sculpture from Roland. In 1811 he won the Prix de Rome; he lived in Rome from 1811 to 1816 studying the work of Canova, Thorwaldsen, and the antique. During his career in Paris he received many private and state sculptural commissions and executed more than 500 portrait medallions. David achieved great fame as a sculptor and was considered a chief exponent of romanticism in sculpture and in the medal. See Forrer i, pp. 522-35; 7, pp. 210-11; H. Vollmer in Thieme-Becker 8, pp. 464-67; Les Medaillons de David d'Angers reunis et publics par son fils, Paris 1867; G. Chesneau & C. Metzger, Les oeuvres de David d'Angers, Angers (Musee des Beaux-Arts), 1934; Pyke, p. 37. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976