‘Little known today, Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was a prolific sculptor who produced some 30 public monuments in the first half of the 19th century. Citing Victor Hugo, who described David as ‘the Michelangelo of Paris,’ the show aspires to reignite interest in the long-neglected artist by casting him as one of the great figures of French Romanticism…’
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