- Jean-Baptiste
Wicar (22
January 1762 – 27
February 1834) was a
French Neoclassical painter and art collector. The son of a carpenter,
Wicar was born in...
- de
Malmaison Portrait with his father,
Louis Bonaparte, by Jean-Baptiste
Wicar Posthumous portrait, 1858 Coat of arms of
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte as Grand...
- to the city's town hall. In 1866, the "musée
Wicar",
formed from the
collection of Jean-Baptiste
Wicar, was
merged into the
Palais des Beaux-Arts. Construction...
- skepticism, it has
served as a
basis for
later art, such as Jean-Baptiste
Wicar's Virgil Reading the Aeneid. Some
lines of the poem were left unfinished...
-
frequently with the work of Callimachus. This late-18th-century
painting by Jean-Baptiste
Wicar shows Vergil reciting his poem to the
emperor Augustus....
-
Louis Bonaparte with his
second son, Napoléon
Louis Bonaparte,
painted by Jean-Baptiste
Wicar...
-
Portrait of
Joseph Bonaparte, King of
Naples by Jean-Baptiste
Wicar...
- artists,
including Jean-Joseph Taill****on,
Antonio Zucchi, Jean-Baptiste
Wicar, Jean-Bruno G****ies and
Angelica Kaufmann, have also been
inspired to depict...
-
treasures Napoleons agents coveted were the
works of Raphael. Jean-Baptiste
Wicar, a
member of Napoleon's
selection committee, was a
collector of Raphael's...
- an
English forger who
worked about 1840. The wax
model of a head, at the
Wicar Museum at Lille,
belongs probably to the
school of Canova,
which robs it...
