Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Jean-Baptiste Wicar , actually Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar (born January 22, 1762 in Lille , Département Nord , † February 27, 1834 in Rome ) was a French neoclassicist painter .
Life
Wicar came from a long-established working class family; his father was a carpenter. Wicar received his first artistic lessons at a private drawing school in his hometown. Later he went to Paris and was there a. a. Pupil of Jacques-Louis David .
Despite the politically troubled times, Wicar was soon able to make a name for itself. Napoleon became aware of him and in 1794 entrusted him to lead a group of experts. After the first coalition war in the Austrian Netherlands, this commission was supposed to sift through the captured art treasures and transfer them to France. On the occasion of the Italian campaign , Wicar was a member of the commission set up by Napoleon in a similar capacity.
In 1800 Wicar settled in Rome. During the next six years he became one of the most important portraitists in the Napoleonic catchment area. When Joseph Bonaparte was made King of Italy in 1806 , one of his first acts was to make Wicar president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Naples . In 1809 Wicar gave up this office and returned to Rome. He died on February 27, 1834 at the age of 72, where he found his final resting place.
reception
Wicar was very successful with his portraits in particular, but artistically he was always somewhat overshadowed by his teacher Jacques-Louis David.
In addition to his own works, Wicar is still known today as a collector. His art collection comprised around 1500 pictures. Most of it went to his hometown Lille as inheritance after Wicar's death. The local learned society Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts was entrusted with the administration and in 1866 this legacy was presented to the public as the Musée Wicar in the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Wicar's apartment and studio in Rome is managed by the Académie des Beaux-Arts . a. Available for scholarship holders for a study visit.
Works (selection)
- State or church orders
- John the Baptist and Saint Sebastian for the church of Boutigny-sur-Essonne ( Essonne department ).
- Marriage of Mary for the Chapel of the Holy Ring in Perugia Cathedral
- Portraits
- Marie-Julie Bonaparte and her daughters Zenaïde and Charlotte . 1815.
- Jacques-Louis David . 1801.
- Joachim Murat .
- Carlotta Bonaparte . 1815.
literature
- Le chevalier Wicar. Peintre, dessinateur et collectionneur lillois . Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille 1984, ISBN 2-902092-05-9 (catalog on the occasion of an exhibition on Wicar's 150th anniversary of his death).
- Fernand Beaucamp: Le peintre lillois Jean Baptiste Wicar (1762-1834). Son œuvre et son temps . Raoust, Lille, 1939 (2 volumes, plus dissertation, University of Lille).
- Salvatore Betti: Note intorno alla vita e alle opere del. Cav. Giambatista Wicar, pittore di Lilla . Rome 1834.
- Maria T. Caracciolo, Genaro Toscano: Jean-Baptiste Wicar et son temps 1762-1834 . Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve D'Ascq 2007, ISBN 978-2-85939-992-4 .
- Maria T. Caracciolo: Jean-Baptiste Wicar. Catalog raisaonné des peintures . In: Les cahiers d'histoire de l'Art , Vol. 7 (2009), pp. 137-162, ISSN 1763-0894 .
- Margot Gordon, Marcello Aldega: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar. Drawings . Editorial De Luca, Rome 1995, ISBN 88-8016-139-3 .
Web links
- Jean-Baptiste Wicar at keytoumbria
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wicar, Jean-Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wicar, Jean-Baptiste Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lille , North Department |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1834 |
| Place of death | Rome |