Adolphe William Bouguereau The Birth of Venus Painting ID:: 10809 new7/Adolphe William Bouguereau 1.jpg
The Birth of Venus 9' 10" x 7' 1 3/4" (300 x 218 cm), Salon of 1879.
Adolphe William Bouguereau Zenobia.found by shepherds on the Banks of the Araxes (mk26) Painting ID:: 24316 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-353694.jpg
Zenobia.found by shepherds on the Banks of the Araxes (mk26) 1850
Oil on canvas
147x113cm
Ecole des Beaux-Arts,Paris
Adolphe William Bouguereau La danse (mk26) Painting ID:: 24317 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-732834.jpg
La danse (mk26) Oil on canvas
367x180cm
Msee d'Orsay,Paris,
Photograph courtesy Lauros-Giaudon
Adolphe William Bouguereau Arion on a Seahorse (mk26) Painting ID:: 24318 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-353553.jpg
Arion on a Seahorse (mk26) Oil on canvas
71x112cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Bacchante on a Panther (mk26) Painting ID:: 24319 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-535339.jpg
Bacchante on a Panther (mk26) Oil on canvas
71x112cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau L'amour (mk26) Painting ID:: 24320 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-886772.jpg
L'amour (mk26) Oil on canvas
269.2x149.9cm
U.S.Embassy,Paris
Adolphe William Bouguereau La fortune (mk26) Painting ID:: 24321 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-639679.jpg
La fortune (mk26) Oil on canvas
269.2x149.9cm
U.S.Embassy
Paris
Adolphe William Bouguereau L'amitie (mk26) Painting ID:: 24322 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-366529.jpg
L'amitie (mk26) Oil on canvas
269.2x149.9cm
U.S.Embassy,Paris
Adolphe William Bouguereau Spring (mk26) Painting ID:: 24323 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-577744.jpg
Spring (mk26) Oil on canvas
49.7x151.8cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Saint Louis Renderingjustice (mk26) Painting ID:: 24324 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-424695.jpg
Saint Louis Renderingjustice (mk26) Mural,
167x292cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Saint louis Caring for the Plague Victims (mk26) Painting ID:: 24325 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-838397.jpg
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
Adolphe William Bouguereau Idyll:Family from Antiquity (nn04) Painting ID:: 24326 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-765293.jpg
Idyll:Family from Antiquity (nn04) Oil on canvas
59.7x48.3cm
Gift of Charles E.Gross in memory of his brother W.H.Gross,
Adolphe William Bouguereau Indiget Family (mk26) Painting ID:: 24327 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-859656.jpg
Indiget Family (mk26) Oil on canvas,
Biringham Museums and Art Gallery
Adolphe William Bouguereau Pieta (mk26) Painting ID:: 24328 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-863835.jpg
Pieta (mk26)
Adolphe William Bouguereau Vierge consolatrice (mk26) Painting ID:: 24329 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-238847.jpg
Vierge consolatrice (mk26) Les Musees de la Ville de Strasbourg
Adolphe William Bouguereau A Soul Brought to Heaven (mk26) Painting ID:: 24330 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-283275.jpg
A Soul Brought to Heaven (mk26) Oil on canvas
180x275cm
Musee du Perigord
Adolphe William Bouguereau Homer and His Guide (mk26) Painting ID:: 24331 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-424422.jpg
Homer and His Guide (mk26) Oil on canvas
208.9x142.9
Adolphe William Bouguereau Young Priestess (mk26) Painting ID:: 24332 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-524537.jpg
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
Adolphe William Bouguereau Seated Nude (mk26) Painting ID:: 24333 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-472476.jpg
Seated Nude (mk26) Oil on canvas
116.5x89.8cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Nymphs and Satyr (mk26) Painting ID:: 24334 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-472872.jpg
Nymphs and Satyr (mk26) 1873
Oil on canvas
260x180cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Girl (mk26) Painting ID:: 24335 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-459994.jpg
Girl (mk26) Oil on canvas
115.8x68.6cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau The Shell (mk26) Painting ID:: 24336 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-892777.jpg
The Shell (mk26) Oil on canvas
130.8x89.5cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Sketch for Song of the Angels (mk26) Painting ID:: 24337 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-466573.jpg
Sketch for Song of the Angels (mk26) Oil on canvas
39.4x27.9cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Rest (mk26) Painting ID:: 24338 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-778332.jpg
Rest (mk26) 1879
Oil on canvas
164.5x117.5cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau The Annunciation (mk26) Painting ID:: 24339 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-656698.jpg
The Annunciation (mk26) Oil on canvas
92.7x50.8cm
Adolphe William Bouguereau Rest in Harvest (mk26) Painting ID:: 24340 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-785665.jpg
Rest in Harvest (mk26) 1865
Oil on canvas
81.3x147.3cm
The Philbrook Museum of Art,Tulsa,Oklahoma.Gift of Laura A.Clubb
Adolphe William Bouguereau Fraternal Love (mk26) Painting ID:: 24341 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-299795.jpg
Fraternal Love (mk26) Oil on canvas
147x113.8cm
Gift of the estate of Thoms Wigglesworth
Adolphe William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher (mk26) Painting ID:: 24342 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-684997.jpg
The Broken Pitcher (mk26) Oil on canvas
133x85.5cm
Fine Ars Museums of San Francisco.
Gift of M.H.de Young 53162
Adolphe William Bouguereau The Thank Offering (mk26) Painting ID:: 24343 new8/Adolphe William Bouguereau-374479.jpg
The Thank Offering (mk26) 1867
Oil on canvas
147.2x107cm
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