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Bronze medallion representing a bas-relief portrait of Jean-Baptiste Kléber by sculptor Pierre Jean David d'Angers (1788-1856).
Medallion diameter: 7 cm
Frame dimensions: 13.5 x 13.5 cm
Pierre-Jean David, known as David d'Angers, born in Angers on March 12, 1788 and died in Paris on January 6, 1856, was a French sculptor and medallist, representative of Romanticism in nineteenth-century French sculpture.
He produced a large number of monuments, tombs, statues, busts and bas-reliefs, including the famous pediment of the Panthéon in Paris in 1837.
In the 1830s, he sculpted a major series of medallion portraits of contemporary personalities, in which he applied the principles of phrenology to an aesthetic level.
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