Jules-Claude Ziegler

Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856), painter, ceramist and photographer of the French school

Biography

Jules Claude Ziegler was born on March 16th, 1804 with Langres. He studies the right against his liking and receives the title of doctor in right. In fact, it is more related to painting in spite of the reserves of his father Jean-Jacques Ziegler. He becomes the pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and of François Joseph Heim. He is one of the first to be been interested in Spanish paintings, which he discovers in the Gallery of Louis-Philippe to Louvre, in the collection of the Soult Marshal, and at Alexandre Aguado; he then copies the Saint François of Zurbarán. He exposes several fabrics to the Living room, in particular Saint Georges embanking the dragon with the Musée of the Art schools of Nancy.

Its main work is not other than the cupola of the church of the Madeleine in Paris, an exceptional realization, of three thousand square feet, removed with Paul Delaroche which was to carry out it; Adolphe Thiers, then Minister of Interior Department, trustful in Ziegler this enormous task, which requires two years of intesive work, until its completion in 1838. The subject represents Christ surrounded of the apostles and granting forgiveness to Marie-madeleine, knelt in the middle of the principal characters of the Church of the East and Occident; one discovers there the foundation and the development of the Catholic church (the iconographic program is very rich: one sees there also Mahomet, the wandering Jew, Luther, of many Roman Emperors, Charlemagne, Napoleon…). This masterpiece is worth the cross of the to him Légion of honor, but tired it and him because a disease of the eyes. With the beginning of the year 1840, it remains regularly in the family property of Haute-Marne, where it is devoted to ceramics and, among the first, with photography. It directs then a manufacture of sandstone vases in Voisinlieu, close to Beauvais in Oise. It returns to painting to the Living room of 1844 and three years painted later Judith celebrates it (museum of Lyon). Become preserving of the museum of Dijon and principal of the Art schools of the city, Ziegler dies brutally on December 22nd, 1856 in Paris. It is buried in the small village of its maternal ancestors, with Soyers in Haute-Marne.

Works

Seen Venice the night (1832) bought by Louis Philippe, nonlocalized
Venice seen of night (1833), draft, museum of the Art schools of Nantes
Portrait of the Cardinal Montalte (1833), nonlocalized
the Doge Foscari returning in his palate after its abdication (1833), Arras, museum
Giotto at Cimabue (1833), museum of the Art schools of Bordeaux
Holy Matthieu (1834), Condom, cathedral
Holy Georges embanking the dragon (1834), Saint-Omer, Notre-Dame church, counterpart autograph with the museum of the Art schools of Nancy
Louis de Champagne, count of Sancerre, Marshal of France in 1368, Constable in 1397 (1835) - Castle of Versailles
Marshal Kellerman (1835), Paris, Senate
the prophet Daniel in the lion's den (1838), Museum of Nantes (counterpart autograph in Langres)
History of Christianity (1836-1838), with half dome of the church of the Madeleine in Paris. (several drafts with Langres, museum; and in particular collections,…)
Holy Luc painting the Virgin (1839), museum of Dunkirk, copies not autograph with the Magnin museum of Dijon
Imagination (1839), Langres, museum (draft in Haggerty Museum off art, Marquette University, Milwaukee)
Good Pasteur (1839), particular collection
the faith (stained glass), (1839) Have, church (preparatory paperboard with the manufacture of Sevres)
Autoportrait , destroyed during the second world war with the museum of Beauvais, known by an old photograph
Notre-Dame snows (1844), municipal museum of Bourbonne-the-Baths
Dew spreading its pearls on the flowers (1844) Museum of Langres
Woman with her toilet, Venetian a , (1844), castles of Malmaison and Wood-Courtyard
Judith with the doors of Béthulie (1847), museum of Lyon
the Dream of Jacob (1847), nonlocalized, known by an old photograph (draft in collection particular to Paris)
the Republic (1848), museum of the Art schools of Lille
Pastors of the Bible , (1850) museum of Dijon
Rain of summer , 1850, museum of Saint-Dizier
Head of Léda , nonlocalized
Charles-Quint, become monk, returning his portrait with the badges of the empire, with London
Henri II and Diane of Poitiers
Agnes Sorel and Charles VII
the Gighi Cardinal making of the excuses with Louis XIV , museum of Versailles (1834)
rosary: Holy Dominique and Holy Catherine , church of Ouge
the Peace of Amiens (1853), Amiens, Court
Portrait of the Marquis de Coislin
the Virgin of Burgundy , museum of Langres
Immaculate Conception (1856), unfinished, Museum of Langres

It should be noted that the many ceramics carried out by Ziegler is preserved at the Ceramics national museum of Sevres and others with the museums of Langres and Beauvais.

Works

ceramic Studies, research of the principles of beautiful in architecture, ceramic art and the form in general
Theory of the coloring of the reliefs (Paris, 1850)
Treated color and light (Paris, 1852)
Report of photography with the Exposure of 1855 (Dijon, 1855)

External bonds

Meeting of the national museums
Meeting of the national museums - photographic Agency
National museum of Ceramics - Sevres

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