Traits de génie
Subtitle: la Collection Wicar : Botticelli, Dürer, Raphael, Michel-Ange, Poussin
By: sous la direction de Cordélia Hattori
Contributors: Pignon-Ernest, Ernest; Lille (France). Musée des beaux-arts; Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse
Publisher: Chaudun
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9782350391564
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; European Drawing
Other titles: Collection Wicar; Traits de génie :; Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Description: The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille houses an outstanding collection of old drawings from the legacy of Wicar. Born in 1762, a student of Jacques-Louis David, the painter Jean-Baptiste Wicar lived over thirty years in Italy. At his death in 1834, he bequeathed his entire collection of drawings in his hometown of Lille. Of these 1,300 sheets, the greatest masters are represented: Raphael, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Cranach, Dürer, Holbein and Poussin. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of John the Baptist Wicar, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille presented selected two hundred of the most beautiful designs of this collection.
Notes: Traits de génie : Ernest Pignon-Ernest  is bound back to back and upside down from Traits de génie : la Collection Wicar.

"Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 12 avril-22 juillet 2013; Musée de L'Hospice Comtesse, 3 avril-30 juin, 2013"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.