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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Elder Sister
1869
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 130 cm x 97 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Knitting Girl
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Nut Gatherers
1882 (1882)
Type oil painting
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Return of Spring
1886(1886)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 79.25 x 46.375 in
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Shepherdess
1889
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 158.75 cm x 93.345 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Bohemian
1890
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 149.9 cm x 106.7 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Goose Girl
1891
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 152 cm x 74 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Knitting Woman
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Daisies
1894(1894)
Medium oil on canvas
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Girl with a pomegranate
oil on canvas
59.6 x 45.7 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Urban landscape
1870(1870)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 25 X 40.9 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
River landscape
1850(1850)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 33.5 X 46.2 cm
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
La Perle
Oil on canvas, 140 x 76.5 cm
Date 1894(1894)
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Virgin of Consolation
Oil on canvas, 80 1/4 x 58 1/4 inches (204 x 148 cm), Les MusXes de la Ville de Strasbourg
Date 1875(1875)
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Familia indigente
1865(1865)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 121.9 X 152.4 cm
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(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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