The world of Jean-Baptiste WicarStudent of David, portraitist of the Bonapartes and great collector, Jean-Baptiste Wicar links French neoclassicism and Italian culture.
1762 - 1834Artist's life
Lille, Paris, David's workshop, Florence, Rome, Naples and ItalyMain homes
History painting, portrait, drawing, copying, engraving, collection and study of mastersPractical
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1762 -1834 · Lille, Paris, Florence, Rome and Napoleonic Italy
Student of David, portraitist of the Bonapartes and great collector, Jean-Baptiste Wicar links French neoclassicism and Italian culture.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar was born in Lille in 1762. Son of a cabinetmaker and a schoolteacher, he attended the city's free drawing school at a very young age before obtaining a scholarship to Paris. He entered the studio of Jacques-Louis David in 1782 and accompanied him to Rome in 1785. His precise drawing, his taste for line and his knowledge of Antiquity were formed through contact with the master and the Italian collections. From 1787, Wicar participated in a vast enterprise of copying the works of the Uffizi gallery. From 1787, Wicar participated in a vast enterprise of copying the works of the Uffizi gallery. His precise drawing, his taste for line and his knowledge of Antiquity were formed through contact with the master and the Italian collections. From 1787, Wicar participated in a vast enterprise of copying the works of the Uffizi gallery. His precise drawing, his taste for line and his knowledge of Antiquity were formed through contact with the master and the Italian collections. From 1787, Wicar participated in a vast enterprise of copying the works of the Uffizi gallery. His precise drawing, his taste for line and his knowledge of intervenes in the French artistic administration in Italy, an activity today inseparable from the context of seizures and transfers of works. He then settled permanently in Rome and worked for the Bonaparte family. The portraits of Caroline Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte and Murat combine facial accuracy, official costume and political authority. His great historical paintings, such as Electra Receiving the Ashes of Orestes or The Resurrection of the Son of Naïm's Widow, seek monumental readability. His great historical paintings, such as Electra Receiving the Ashes of Orestes or The Resurrection of the Son of Naïm's Widow, seek monumental readability. In this last work, completed in 1816, the crowd, gestures and architecture lead to the central miracle. Wicar is also a major collector of drawings elders. His legacy in Lille, including sheets by Raphael and his entourage, lastingly transformed the museum of his hometown. Died in Rome in 1834, he embodies both the neoclassical painter and the collector of collections between France and Italy. The "Jean-Baptiste Wicar" selection notably compares The Resurrection of the Son of Naïm's Widow and Electra receiving Orestes' ashes. His reading favors composition.
Wicar looks at painting as a designer and a collector: each figure is a thought-out outline, each gesture a transformed quote from Antiquity or Raphael.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Lille, David and first Roman stay
Drawing school, Parisian stock exchange and David's workshop establish a neoclassical discipline based on contour. This milestone sheds light on the "Jean-Baptiste Wicar" collection by favoring composition.
Artistic offices and missions in Italy
Florentine copies, Revolution and administration of the arts make Wicar a controversial mediator between collections.
Rome, Bonaparte and legacy in Lille
Portraits, great religious stories and a collection of ancient drawings build his dual heritage as a painter and donor.
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Davidian outline
The line clearly isolates the face, clothing and gesture before color establishes volume. This line guides a reading of "Jean-Baptiste Wicar" centered on composition.
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Monumental group
The numerous figures remain readable thanks to successive shots and a precise dramatic center.
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Political portrait
Similarity, costume and function attribute balance the private person and the public role.
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Memory of the masters
Raphael, Antiquity and the Uffizi nourish the poses without transforming the work into a simple copy.
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Six readings specific to Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a journey exclusively devoted to Jean-Baptiste Wicar.
Monumental miracle01
The Resurrection of the son of the widow of Naim
Crowds, architecture and gestures converge towards the return to life in a vast neoclassical composition.
Landmark work by Jean-Baptiste Wicar. Reading of "Jean-Baptiste Wicar" through composition.Ancient pain02
Electra receiving Orestes' ashes
The urn, the suspended gesture and the profiles construct a pain contained according to ancient theater.
Landmark work by Jean-Baptiste WicarNapoleonic power03
Portrait of Caroline Bonaparte
Pose, fabric and look combine personal elegance and dynastic rank in a court portrait.
Landmark work by Jean-Baptiste WicarPoetry and power04
Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia
Reading, emotion and imperial authority are balanced in an interior ordered by gesture.
Landmark work by Jean-Baptiste WicarStyle05
Davidian outline
The line clearly isolates the face, clothing and gesture before color establishes volume. This line guides a reading of "Jean-Baptiste Wicar" centered on composition.
Reading key for Jean-Baptiste WicarStyle06
Monumental group
The numerous figures remain readable thanks to successive shots and a precise dramatic center.
Reading key for Jean-Baptiste Wicar
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