He himself rests in Division 39, but his name remains attached above all to a genre: the bronze medallion portrait, of which he produced around a hundred for his famous contemporaries. Who is this sculptor?
The answer
David d'Angers created nearly a hundred bronze medallions, relief portraits of leading figures of his time. This format, at once sober and intimate, became one of the signatures of nineteenth-century funerary sculpture.
This question belongs to the “Funerary Art” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.