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Adolphe William Bouguereau
The Birth of Venus
9' 10" x 7' 1 3/4" (300 x 218 cm), Salon of 1879.
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
The Dance
1856, Salon of 1857, Part of Decorative ensemble for Anatole Bartholoni's private residence, 12' x 6' 1" (367 x 185 cm). Gift of Captain Peter Moore, 1981.
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Zenobia.found by shepherds on the Banks of the Araxes (mk26)
1850
Oil on canvas
147x113cm
Ecole des Beaux-Arts,Paris
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
La danse (mk26)
Oil on canvas
367x180cm
Msee d'Orsay,Paris,
Photograph courtesy Lauros-Giaudon
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Arion on a Seahorse (mk26)
Oil on canvas
71x112cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Bacchante on a Panther (mk26)
Oil on canvas
71x112cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
L'amour (mk26)
Oil on canvas
269.2x149.9cm
U.S.Embassy,Paris
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
La fortune (mk26)
Oil on canvas
269.2x149.9cm
U.S.Embassy
Paris
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
L'amitie (mk26)
Oil on canvas
269.2x149.9cm
U.S.Embassy,Paris
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Spring (mk26)
Oil on canvas
49.7x151.8cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Saint Louis Renderingjustice (mk26)
Mural,
167x292cm
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Saint louis Caring for the Plague Victims (mk26)
Mural,
167x292cm
Chapel of Saint Louis,in the church of Sainte-Clotilde.
Photograph courtesy SOAE.Ville de Paris
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Idyll:Family from Antiquity (nn04)
Oil on canvas
59.7x48.3cm
Gift of Charles E.Gross in memory of his brother W.H.Gross,
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Indiget Family (mk26)
Oil on canvas,
Biringham Museums and Art Gallery
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Pieta (mk26)
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Vierge consolatrice (mk26)
Les Musees de la Ville de Strasbourg
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
A Soul Brought to Heaven (mk26)
Oil on canvas
180x275cm
Musee du Perigord
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Homer and His Guide (mk26)
Oil on canvas
208.9x142.9
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Young Priestess (mk26)
Oil on canvas
181x81cm
Memorial Art Gallery of thte University of Rochester.
Gift of Paul T.White in memory of Josephine Kryl White 73.1
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
Seated Nude (mk26)
Oil on canvas
116.5x89.8cm
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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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