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Bouguereau, Adolphe-William
(1825-1905)

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
-- Adolphe-William Bouguereau, 1895

As a young man, Bouguereau put himself through the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by keeping books for a wine merchant and coloring lithographic labels for a local grocer. In Bouguereau, Adolphe-William’s spare time, late in the evening, Bouguereau Adolphe-William created drawings from memory. TBouguereau, Adolphe-William’s diligence and discipline resulted in an extrordinarily productive artistic life. Bouguereau produced more than seven hundred finished works and achieved a remarkable level of public acclaim and financial success. Bouguereau Adolphe-William never forgot Bouguereau, Adolphe-William’s difficult early days, however; working secretly, Bouguereau Adolphe-William assisted young artists who were struggling as Bouguereau Adolphe-William had to pursue an artistic career in the face of financial difficulties.

Like many painters of the second half of the 19th century, Bouguereau made a careful study of form and technique and steeped himself in classical sculpture and painting. True to Bouguereau, Adolphe-William’s serious and industrious nature, Bouguereau Adolphe-William worked deliberately and industriously: before beginning a painting Bouguereau Adolphe-William would master the history of Bouguereau, Adolphe-William’s subject and complete numerous sketches.

The tenderness with which Bouguereau Adolphe-William portrayed children and domestic scenes, Bouguereau, Adolphe-William’s technical skill and passion for the classics, and Bouguereau, Adolphe-William’s love of rich color are hallmarks of Bouguereau's exquisite paintings.

The career of William Bouguereau, unlike that of his contemporaries, the then avant-garde Impressionists, was one of ever-increasing success without significant setback. Bouguereau Adolphe-William was born on the west coast of France into a family of wine (later olive oil) merchants and was given a classical education by his uncle Eugène, a curate, who tutored him in bible study, Latin and Greek, with particular reference to Old and New Testament stories and classical mythology. Bouguereau Adolphe-William also arranged for him to take drawing lessons and such was his ability that after only 2 years of part-time study, Bouguereau Adolphe-William won first prize in the figure-painting class at the Bordeaux Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

With the help of money earned from painting portraits of his uncle's parishioners and financial assistance from an aunt, at the age of 21 William went to Paris to train in the studio of François-Edouard Picot and, after only two months of tutoring there, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Chosen as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in the years of 1848 and 1849 (10 contestants were admitted each year), Bouguereau Adolphe-William was finally awarded the prize in 1850. As was the tradition, the winner was sent to Rome for 4 years to study at the Villa Medici, the seat of the French Academy in Italy, where the techniques of the classical and Renaissance masters were tought. While there Bouguereau Adolphe-William also took the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the country locating and copying many Renaissance masterpieces and visiting towns and lakes which had inspired the landscape artists. The influences from this period are readily apparent in all his future work.

Returning to Paris in 1854, Bouguereau regularly exhibited at the Salon and was awarded many commissions for portraits and decorative series. His work was very popular with both public and the critics and Bouguereau Adolphe-William was soon able to sell through the dealers Durand-Ruel and Goupil, finding enthusiastic markets in England and America.

Throughout his later career Bouguereau Adolphe-William gained much official and public recognition and was awarded an imperial commission in 1856, resulting in the canvas Napoleon III Visiting the Floods of Tarascon. In 1857 Bouguereau Adolphe-William was awarded a first-class Salon medal and in 1859 was made a chevalier (a knight). Awarded the Legion of Honour in 1876, Bouguereau Adolphe-William was at the same time made one of only 40 life members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, the highest official honour awarded to French artists. In 1885 Bouguereau Adolphe-William was awarded the Grand Medal of Honour at the Salon and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in the same year (becoming a grand officer of the Legion in 1903).

Official international recognition was also forthcoming: in 1862 Bouguereau Adolphe-William was named an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Artists and in 1866 became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine arts in Holland. Bouguereau Adolphe-William won a first-class medal at the international exhibition in Munich in 1879 and in 1881 became a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold in Belgium, being elevated to the rank of Commander in 1895. 1889 saw him become a member of the Honorary Order of Spain and a Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium.

Bouguereau was also a respected teacher and in 1881 was elected president of the painting section of the Paris Salon. In 1883 Bouguereau Adolphe-William became president of the benevolent Society of Painters, Architects, Sculptors, Engravers and Designers, which promoted and attended to the welfare of new and struggling artists. Bouguereau Adolphe-William also taught drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also taught at the independent Académie Julian.

Although relatively little is known about it, Bouguereau's private life was less happy. In 1856 Bouguereau Adolphe-William married Marie-Nelly Monchablon (1836-1877) with whom Bouguereau Adolphe-William had five children, three sons and two daughters. They lived together with his domineering mother in a purposely-built large house and studio at 75, rue Notre-Dame des Champs in the Montparnasse, an area of Paris popular with artists to this day. But domestic happiness was short-lived and a daughter, Jeanne-Léontine, died in infancy in1872; a son, Georges died in 1875 at the age of 16; In 1877 his wife Nelly died, closely followed by the infant William-Maurice. This persomal tragedy was memorialized in two paintings: Pietà in 1876, dedicated to Georges, and Vierge Consolatrice in 1877. His other son, Adolphe-Paul, was also to die of Tuberculosis in 1900, aged 30.

In 1879 Bouguereau became engaged to the young American artist Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922) who was his neighbour in Montparnasse, but their wedding was initially opposed by his daughter Henriette and also his mother, not until whose death at the age of 91 in 1896 were they able to marry, and they lived together happily for the few remaining years of his life.

Each summer Bouguereau would return to his birthplace of La Rochelle to paint in his studio Bouguereau Adolphe-William had built there and it was there that Bouguereau Adolphe-William died in 1905 after several years of heart disease. Bouguereau Adolphe-William is buried in the famous cemetary of Montparnasse, near where Bouguereau Adolphe-William had lived in Paris.

He declared that Bouguereau Adolphe-William was only really happy when painting and indeed Bouguereau Adolphe-William completed almost 700 canvases during his long career. Despite being verbally attacked by Degas and the Impressionists who considered him to be too backward-looking and artificial and to be holding back the progression of French art, by the time of his death Bouguereau Adolphe-William was one of the most respected and loved of French artists. Bouguereau Adolphe-William was a favourite of collectors who found in his scenes of bathers, nymphs and other idylls, the perfect escapism from the pressures of every-day life.

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