DAVID D'ANGERS, Pierre-Jean

Angers, Maine-et-Loire 1788 - Paris 1856

Maker: Fumière

André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)

André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)

1829

bronze

medallion

Dimensions (HxWxD): diam. 5 ¹⁄₁₆ in.

signed bottom center: DAVID
dated bottom center: 1829
inscribed at left: ANDRÉ MARIE AMPÈRE
foundry stamp top right: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS

Acc. No.: 54.847

Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters

Photo credit: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters Art Museum

thewalters.org

Provenance

• Baltimore, Henry Walters [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
• 1931, Walters Art Museum, by bequest

Bibliography

• Museum's website (accessed May 12, 2017)

Comment

• Museum's website (accessed May 12, 2017):
  A French physicist and mathematician, André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) was born in Lyon and became a professor at the École Polytechnique in 1805 and later at the Université and the Collège de France. The inventor of the astatic needle that gave rise to the invention of the astatic galvanometer, he formulated the matematical basis of electrodynamics and developed Ampère's Law on electric currents.

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