DAVID D'ANGERS, Pierre-Jean

Angers, Maine-et-Loire 1788 - Paris 1856

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

plaster copy of the 1833 original

painted plaster

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): H. 79 in.

signed: P. J. DAVID D'ANGERS 1833
inscribed: presented to the corporation of the city of New York by Commodore Uria P. Levy, of the United States Navy, February sixth 1934

Credit Line: Presented to the corporation of the city of New York by Commodore Uriah P. Levy, of the United States Navy

Photo credit: photo downloaded from New York Cityhall website, http://www.nyc.gov/html/artcom/html/tours/visit_guide_collections.shtml, 27 October 2011

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

New York, New York, New York City Hall

www.nyc.gov

Provenance

• plaster copy of the 1833 original bronze in the Capitol at Washington, D.C.
• 1834, February 6, Presented to the corporation of the city of New York by Commodore Uriah P. Levy, of the United States Navy

Bibliography

• 1977 Guide
  City Hall. Guide to its art and architecture, New York City Art Commission, 1977

Comment

• City hall's website, 27 October 2011:
  To the left of the dais a statue in plaster of Thomas Jefferson holding the Declaration of Independence by Pierre-Jean David D'Angers (1833) served as the model for a bronze in the U.S. Capitol. Uriah Phillips Levy, a naval officer and wealthy New York real estate investor, so admired Jefferson that he commissioned the sculpture and, in 1836, also bought Jefferson's house, Monticello, thereby preserving it for the American people.

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