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DAVID D'ANGERS, Pierre-Jean

Angers, Maine-et-Loire 1788 - Paris 1856

François Arago (1786-1853)

François Arago (1786-1853)

1832

bronze

medallion

Dimensions (HxWxD): diam. 2 7⁄8 in.

signed bottom center: David
dated bottom center: 1832
inscribed at right: F. Arago

Acc. No.: 54.2384

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick B. Adams, 1954

Photo credit: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters Art Museum

thewalters.org

Provenance

  • Mrs. Frederick B. Adams [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • 1854, Walters Art Museum, by gift

Bibliography

  • Museum's website (accessed May 15, 2017)

Comment

  • Museum's website (accessed May 15, 2017):
    Dominique-François-Jean Arago (1786-1853), is best remembered as an astronomer for his accurate measurements of the planets and as the discoverer of the solar chromosphere. As a physicist, his prinicple work was in electromagnetism, and he is credited as the discoverer of magnetic rotation. Arago entered politics in 1830, and it was by his order that slavery was abolished in the French colonies.