William-Adolphe Bouguereau

1825–1905 · France · Academic Art

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. Wikipedia

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Flawless, polished skin, sweet-faced nymphs and peasant girls, cherubs and mythology in a glossy academic finish.

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“Dante and Virgil in Hell”, 1850 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Birth of Venus”, 1879 — Musée d'Orsay
“Nymphs and Satyr”, 1873 — Clark Art Institute
“The Shepherdess”, 1889 — Philbrook Museum of Art
“The Elder Sister”, 1869 — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“The abduction of Psyche”, 1895
“The First Mourning”, 1888 — National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina
“The Dance”, 1856 — Musée d'Orsay
“Gabrielle Cot”, 1890 — National Museum of Western Art
“Zenobia found by Shepherds on the banks of the Araxes”, 1850 — Beaux-Arts de Paris
“Wet Cupid”, 1891
“The Wave”, 1896
“Amor and Psyche, children”, 1890
“The Return of Spring”, 1886 — Joslyn Art Museum
“Cupid with a Butterfly”, 1888
“The Broken Pitcher”, 1891 — Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“Dawn”, 1881 — Birmingham Museum of Art
“Dusk”, 1882 — National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba
“The Oreads”, 1902 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Young Shepherdess”, 1885 — San Diego Museum of Art
“Equality Before Death”, 1848 — Musée d'Orsay
“Whisperings of Love”, 1889 — New Orleans Museum of Art
“The Bohemian”, 1890 — Minneapolis Institute of Art
“Alone in the World”, 1867
“The Nut Gatherers”, 1882 — Detroit Institute of Arts
“Work Interrupted”, 1891 — Mead Art Museum
“Flora and Zephyr”, 1875 — Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
“The Knitting Girl”, 1869 — Joslyn Art Museum
“Spring dream”, 1901
“Pietà”, 1876
“Orestes Pursued by the Furies”, 1862 — Chrysler Museum of Art
“Virgin with Angels”, 1881 — Forest Lawn Museum
“The Virgin With Angels”, 1900 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros”, 1880 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Rest”, 1879 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“The Goose Girl”, 1891 — Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
“Byblis”, 1884 — Salar Jung Museum
“Ulysses recognized by his nurse on his return from Troy”, 1848 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle
“The Virgin of the Lilies”, 1899
“The night”, 1883 — Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

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