Gallery David d'Angers (Angers) was opened in 1839 during the life of this famous sculptor. He was born in Angers in 1788, he studied painting and sculpture in France and Italy. By 28 years, returning from Rome to Paris, the artist gained fame unsurpassed sculptor. Traveling through Europe, a sculptor famous by stucco busts of many celebrities of the time. He also engaged in manufacturing bas-relief medallions and cast bronze medals with portraits of celebrities of the era - for example, the virtuoso Paganini, writer George Sand and poet Beranger. The best-known works of the medal d'Angers found bronze image of the young Napoleon and Lord Byron.

David d'Angers captured Victor Hugo and Goethe, and Chateaubriand Rouge de Lille, Washington and Humboldt, carved statues of the Prince de Conde and Rene d'Anjou, playwright Corneille and the inventor of the printing press by Johann Gutenberg and many other figures of politics and art. David d'Angers reliefs belong to the Triumphal Arch in Marseille, sculpture pediment of the Pantheon in Paris, the frieze of the theater "Odeon" and other sculptures.

The last four years of life spent in exile sculptor, and only returned to Paris in 1856, where died and was buried in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise.

In the hometown gallery of his works about a hundred years, the building housed the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1984, the gallery moved to All Saints Church, built in the XII century and restored. In this museum you can see works in large format, which set aside the first floor hall. Among the busts and sculptures are images of Balzac, Goethe and Washington. Also in the collection includes sketches, small sculptural forms and a collection of medals collected by the author.