[23] Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (Paris 1766–1828 Paris)
Pierre Jean David d’Angers
1811, oil on canvas

David d'Angers turns away from the easel with the bas-relief Tod des Epaminondas [see display case 5] with a wooden modeling tool in his hand. He has already sculpted the field commander and his weapon bearer in clay. To their left, one of the complaining warrior has been crudely sketched out with a scratch. It seems as if Pajou stopped the sculptor at that moment from work. For the relief, which was later transferred to marble, David d'Angers received a scholarship to the École des Beaux-Arts in Rome in 1811, where he stayed for six years.