Lot 666: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar (Lille 1762-1834 Rome)

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar (Lille 1762-1834 Rome)
Drapery study for the figure of Augustus in Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Livia
black and white chalk, on light brown paper, two corners made up
11 x 8½ in. (29.9 x 21.5 cm.), unframed

M. Gordon and M. Aldega, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar: drawings, Rome, 1995, p. 18, illustrated.

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This drawing is a preparatory study for Wicar's famous painting, Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Livia (1818; Villa Carlotta, Cadenabbia Tremezzo, Lake Como). Two copies of the picture, in the Collection Baldoni, Rome, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, are illustrated by Gordon and Aldega, op. cit., p. 94).