David d'Angers, real name Pierre Jean David (1788-1856), French sculptor, born in Angers. He studied sculpture and painting in Paris and, as winner of the Prix de Rome, in Rome (1811-1816). His masterpiece is Nation Distributing Crowns to Genius (1837), a bas-relief in classical style on the pediment of the Pantheon in Paris. He also did realistic medallions and portrait busts of such notables as the French writer Victor Hugo, the French military leader the marquis de Lafayette, and Thomas Jefferson. Much of David d'Angers's work is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Angers.