Angers Travel Guide

Housed in the 13th-century Toussaint Abbey church in Angers, this gallery displays more than 500 portraits—busts, reliefs and medallions—carved by sculptor David d'Angers (1788–1856). Among the subjects are Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Goethe and Lafayette. A glass roof floods the Gothic nave with light, while the artist's monumental pieces, including his statue of the Greek general Philopoemen, anchor the collection. Don't miss the adjacent Musée des Beaux-Arts, which shares the same entrance.