Pierre-Jean David D’Angers (French, 1788–1856)
Portrait of Paul Delaroche, 1832
Cast bronze, 2 1/4 in. diam.
2003.47
Gift of DeCourcy E. McIntosh

By the early 19th century, Pierre-Jean David d’Angers revived the 700-year-old art of medal making.  Best known for the pediment of the Panthéon in Paris, David d’Angers also produced more than 500 cast portrait medallions of the leading literary, political, and artistic figures of his era. Nearly all his medallions present the sitter in profile, which David d’Angers considered the most expressive and comprehensive angle.