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William-Adolphe Bouguereau Biography

(1825-1905)
French pronunciation: [vijɑ̃ buɡəʁo]
He produced more than seven hundred finished Bouguereau paintings and achieved a remarkable level of public acclaim and financial success. The tenderness with which he portrayed children and domestic scenes, his technical skill and passion for the classics, and his love of rich color are hallmarks of exquisite Bouguereau paintings.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau is a French painter, and he is the most important figure of academic art in France since the early half of the 19th century to the end. Bouguereau won lots of laurels in his life. He was regarded as the most distinguished painter in France. A number of millionaires are keen on buying Bouguereau paintings. But the great mass fervor faded away after 1920, because some supporters of Impressionism were intensively opposed to Bouguereau art style and they changed the aethestic standard of the masses. In the following several decades, Bouguereau was once glorious and then forgotten. Bouguereau paintings caused people’s attention again until the end of 20th century. So, oil painting lovers are very interested in Bouguereau biography, and reproductions of his paintings for sale in gallery are prevalent.

Analysis of Best Known Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

                                   -- Author: Lewis L., Toperfect Director.
 

Bouguereau paintings pursued of aestheticism, some of which are dealing with methology, angels and allegory while others depict scenes in realism paintings. In Bouguereau paintings, the female figures are very beautiful such as goddesses, fairy maidens, ordinary women and country girls. The artist was a productive painter, left about 800 Bouguereau paintings on various subjects, such as classical mythology, religion, secular scene and portrait.

The subjects of Bouguereau paintings change from earlier large-scale solemn and gloom religious scene to the relaxed and bright secular scene, such as mother and son, shepherd girls, peasant women, women bathers and children. The creation of Fraternal Love in 1851 symbols the beginning of the convention. Besides, he constantly repeated the theme of maternity.

Bouguereau Paintings List

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