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William-Adolphe Bouguereau 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. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. As the quintessential sal…
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culture · French academic painter (1825–1905) · painter · architectural drafter · also William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Bouguereau, Adolphe William Bouguereau, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, w.m bouguereau
Born 30 November 1825 · Died 19 August 1905 · Q483992
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The Milwaukee Art Museum exhibited more than 40 of Bouguereau's paintings in a major retrospective of his work, which according to The Wall Street Journal, asked the readers to "see Bouguereau through the eyes of an age
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The nuns sold it for $450,000 to an art dealer, who was able to sell it for more than $2 million
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To the Daughters of Mary Mother of Our Savior, an order of nuns affiliated with Clarence Kelly's Traditionalist Catholic Society of St
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For The Motherland and Charity at auction in May 2000 for $3
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The Borghi Gallery hosted a commercial show of 23 oil paintings and one drawing
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American art historian Frank Jewett Mather criticized the commercial intent of Bouguereau's work, writing that the artist "multiplied vague, pink effigies of nymphs, occasionally draped them, when they became saints and
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Died 1905-08-19.
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“For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.”
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1903).
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That Bouguereau was a man "destitute of artistic feeling but possessing a cultured taste [who] reveals
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That the direction of his mature work was largely a response to the marketplace: "What do you expect, you have to follow public taste, and the public only buys what it likes
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Bouguereau's painting Return of Spring was damaged at a Foreign art exhibition of local artists in Omaha, Nebraska
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Career landmark: chairperson (1885–1905).
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Decided that rather than rent he would purchase a house, as well as local farm buildings
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1881).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1876).
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Maurice, but her health was declining and the doctors suspected that she had contracted tuberculosis
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With assistants, he began work on a La Rochelle chapel ceiling, producing six paintings on copper over the next six years
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Together with five servants and with his mother, Adeline, visiting daily
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The year of his marriage to Nelly, he bought a vast plot of land on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, and an architect was commissioned to design a grand house with a top-floor studio
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1859).
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William began living with one of his models, Marie-Nelli Monchablon, a 19-year-old, born 15 Nov 1836 in Lisle-en-Rigault
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The Ministry of State for Fine Arts commissioned him to paint Emperor Napoleon III Visiting the Victims of the Tarascon Flood
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After his stay in Rome, he lived at 27 rue de Fleurus, and the following year rented a fourth-floor studio at 3 rue Carnot, near his apartment
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Studied at French Academy in Rome (1851–1853).
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Awarded Prix de Rome for Zenobia found by Shepherds on the banks of the Araxes (1850).
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Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1846–1850).
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Awarded Prix de Rome (1848).
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Returned to Mortagne to spend more time with his uncle
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Was sent to study for the priesthood at a Catholic college in Pons
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Born 1825-11-30.
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