Jean-Baptiste Wicar

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article includes a improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (May 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message ) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,164 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Jean-Baptiste Wicar]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Jean-Baptiste Wicar}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Self-Portrait (1796)
Born	22 January 1762 Lille
Died	27 February 1834 Rome
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting
Movement	Neoclassicism

Jean-Baptiste Wicar (22 January 1762 – 27 February 1834) was a French Neoclassical painter and art collector.

Life

The son of a carpenter, Wicar was born in Lille. He studied drawing at the free school in Lille before further honing his talents in the studio of

) were published in Paris in 4 volumes at the Lacombe publishing house from 1789 to 1807.

[Wicar headed the commission set up to loot artworks from the

. This commission was charged with seizing artworks that could enrich French national museum collections. He finally permanently settled in Rome in 1800 and became a portraitist of European renown.

On his death in Rome in 1834, Wicar left the major collection of 1,300 drawings he had accumulated over his lifetime to the Société des Sciences, de l’Agriculture et des Arts de Lille. Mostly from the Italian school, but also in some small measure from the northern schools, it held drawings by artists like

.

Among his pupils was Francesco Giangiacomo.

Works

• Boutigny-sur-Essonne, church, St John the Baptist and Saint Sebastian
• Naples,
  Marie-Julie Bonaparte
  and her daughters, Zénaïde and Charlotte.
• Paris,
  Musée du Louvre, Portrait of Jacques-Louis David
  , given to the Louvre in 1998.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts, Portrait of general Murat
  .
• Rome, Museo Napoleonico [fr], Carlotta Bonaparte principessa Gabrielli as a young peasant woman.
• Musée de la Révolution française, Portrait of First Republic, first painted representation of the French Republic.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia (1790)

Selected paintings

• 
  Antoine Christophe Saliceti
• 
  Electra Receiving the Ashes of Orestes
• 
  Julie Bonaparte with her daughters Zénaïde and Charlotte
• 
  Joseph Bonaparte
• 
  Solomon's Judgement
• 
  Joachim Murat

Sources

• Fernand Beaucamp : Le peintre lillois Jean Baptiste Wicar (1762 1834) son oeuvre et son temps (Lille, 1939, 2 vols).
• Maria Teresa Caracciolo et Gennaro Toscano : Jean-Baptiste Wicar et son temps 1762-1834 (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2007).

External links

Media related to Jean-Baptiste Wicar at Wikimedia Commons

• Jean-Baptiste Wicar @ Artcyclopedia