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Adolphe William Bouguereau Birth of Venus mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Orsay Museum
1879
France
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Girl Defending Herself Against Love nn07
44.1 x 61.25 cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau The Birth of Venus mk156
1879
Oil on canvas
303x216cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Idyii mk221
1852
Oil on cavnas
84.5x63.5cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Jhe War mk221
1864
Oil on canvas
83.9x105.5cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau The Reaper mk221
Oil on canvas
179.1x115.9cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau The Lost Pleiad mk221
1884
Oil on canvas
195.6x95.3cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Roman Beauty mk221
1904
Oil on canvas
180.4x81.2cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Return of Spring mk222
1886
Joslyn Art Museum,Omaha,Nebraska
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Adolphe William Bouguereau The Birth of Venus mk235
1879
300x215cm
Oil on canvas
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Bathers mk235
1884
Oil on canvas
200.7x129cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau The god of the forest with their fairy mk250 Year in 1873. Oil on canvas, 259.1 centimeters high. Massachusetts Granville of the United States and Sri Lanka and the town of Sterling Clark Art Institute
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Psyche Description Bouguereau-Psyche.jpg
Psyche
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Spinner Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 160 x 91.5 cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau The Grape Picker 1875(1875)
Oil on canvas
140 x 63 cm (55.12 x 24.8 in)
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Psyche Description Bouguereau-Psyche.jpg
Psyche
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Thirst Date 1886
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Grape Picker Date 1875(1875
Dimensions 140 x 63 cm (55.12 x24.8 in)
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Adolphe William Bouguereau nude Date 1881(1881)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81 5/8 x 42 1.4 inches
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Portrait of Leonie Bouguereau 1850(1850)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 28.5 x 22.9 cm (11.2 x 9 in)
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
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Bouguereau made more than seven hundred finished works. French painter. From 1838 to 1841 he took drawing lessons from Louis Sage, a pupil of Ingres, while attending the coll?ge at Pons. In 1841 the family moved to Bordeaux where in 1842 his father allowed him to attend the Ecole Municipale de Dessin et de Peinture part-time, under Jean-Paul Alaux. In 1844 he won the first prize for figure painting, which confirmed his desire to become a painter. As there were insufficient family funds to send him straight to Paris he painted portraits of the local gentry from 1845 to 1846 to earn money. In 1846 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in the studio of Francois-Edouard Picot. This was the beginning of the standard academic training of which he became so ardent a defender later in life. Such early works as Equality reveal the technical proficiency he had attained even while still training. In 1850 he was awarded one of the two Premier Grand Prix de Rome for Zenobia Discovered by Shepherds on the Bank of the River Araxes (1850; Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.). In December 1850 he left for Rome where he remained at the Villa Medici until 1854, working under Victor Schnetz and Jean Alaux (1786-1864). During this period he made an extensive study of Giotto's work at Assisi and Padua and was also impressed by the works of other Renaissance masters and by Classical art. On his return to France he exhibited the Triumph of the Martyr (1853; Luneville, Mus. Luneville; ) at the Salon of 1854. It depicted St Cecilia's body being carried to the catacombs, and its high finish, restrained colour and classical poses were to be constant features of his painting thereafter. All his works were executed in several stages involving an initial oil sketch followed by numerous pencil drawings taken from life. Though he generally restricted himself to classical, religious and genre subjects, he was commissioned by the state to paint Napoleon III Visiting the Flood Victims of Tarascon in 1856
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