William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French, 1825-1905
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Fraternal Love
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21083
The Dance
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21084
Spring
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21085
All Saints' Day (Le jour des morts)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21086
Rest at Harvest
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21087
The Thanks Offering
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21088
Art and Literature
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21089
The Shell
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21090
Nymphs and Satyr
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21091
Cupidon
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21092
The Secret
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21093
Return from the Harvest
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21094
A Soul Brought to Heaven
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21095
Charity
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21096
Rest
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21097
The Birth of Venus
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21098
Self-Portrait
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21099
Temptation
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21100
Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21101
Song of the Angels
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21102
Child at Bath
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21103
The Annunciation
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21104
The Bohemian
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21105
Innocence
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21106
Work Interrupted
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21107
The Abduction of Psyche
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21108
Girl
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21109
Two Girls (Childhood Idyll)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21110
The Virgin with Angels
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21111
Portrait of the Artist
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21112
Little Thieves
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21113
Young Gypsies
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21114
Just a Taste
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21115
Pieta
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21116
Cupid with a Butterfly
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21117
Birth of Venus
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21118
Biblis
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21119
Elegy
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21120
Pastorale
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21121
A Little Coaxing
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Item ID:21122
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter and traditionalist. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work. Throughout the course of his life, Bouguereau executed 822 known finished paintings, although the whereabouts of many are still unknown.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France, on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncle Eugène, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. He showed artistic talent early on. His father was convinced by a client to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where he won first prize in figure painting for a depiction of Saint Roch. To earn extra money, he designed labels for jams and preserves.


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