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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body.
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 Eugene, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau showed artistic talent early on and 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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Painting ID:: 75713
Depiction of a soul being carried to heaven by two angels
Depiction of a soul being carried to heaven by two angels
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Painting ID:: 77387
L Etoile Perdue
1884(1884)
Dimensions 195.5 ?? 95 cm
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Painting ID:: 79033
Portrait of Leonie Bouguereau
1850(1850)
Oil on canvas
28.5 x 22.9 cm (11.2 x 9 in)
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Painting ID:: 82985
The Remorse of Orestes or Orestes Pursued by the Furies
Date 1862
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: (227 x 278 cm)
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Painting ID:: 83016
The Wave
1896(1896)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 121 x 160.5 cm (47.6 x 63.2 in)
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body.
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 Eugene, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau showed artistic talent early on and 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
. Related Artists to William-Adolphe Bouguereau: | Overbeck, Johann Friedrich | Johannes Jelgerhuis | michael sittow formerly known as maitre Michiel | George Hardy | Wladyslaw Podkowinski |
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