Augustin Thierry
1828, cast before 1844
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Overall: 5 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (14 x 13.7 cm)
Classification
Medals and Plaquettes
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2009
Accession Number
2009.264
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite bronze medal, titled *Augustin Thierry*, is a collaborative portrait by the renowned French Romantic sculptor Pierre-Jean David d'Angers Louis Richard, created in 1828 and before 1844. just 5½ x 5⅜ inches, it captures the profile of Augustin Thierry, a pioneering French historian celebrated for his vivid narratives of medieval history, such as *The Conquest of England by the Normans*. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department, this intimate plaquette exemplifies the medal's role as a portable tribute to intellectual luminaries. ...
About the Artist
Pierre Jean David d'Angers|Louis Richard · 1788–1856
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, born on March 12, 1788, in Angers, France, to a wood carver and ornamental sculptor father who had fought in the Republican army, began his artistic training locally under Marchand and Jean-Jacques Delusse at the École centrale d'Angers from 1806 to 1807. In 1808, he arrived in Paris with scant funds and entered the studio of Philippe-Laurent Roland, later working under...