Adolf-William Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There Bouguereau won the Prix de Paris and was sent to Rome where he studied for four years at the Villa Medici, returning to Paris in 1854. William Bouguereau - he did not use his first name of Adolf - established himself as an artist and was able to command high prices for his work during his lifetime. His popularity during this period was greater in America and England than his native France.
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In 1856 Bouguereau married Marie-Nelly Monchablon and the couple had five children. In 1877 Nelly died, Bouguereau remarried American Elizabeth Jane Gardner in 1897. He received many honors during his lifetime, including the Grand Medal of Honor at the Salon, was named honorary member of the Belgian Society of Artists and made a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium in 1889. William Bouguereau died in La Rochelle on August 19, 1905 of heart disease.Museums: William Bouguereau may be found at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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William Adolphe Bouguereau seclected paintings and art
very roughly translated from French!
- A little girl 1886- A Soul Brought to Heaven
- A Young Beauty
- A young girl wearing a pitcher 1885
- A young girl with a basket of fruit 1905
- About Tendres
- Admiration maternal 1869
- After the bath
- After the Bath 1894
- All Souls' Day
- All Souls Days
- Alma Parens 1883
- Alone in the World, only the World
- An angel 32.4x25.6
- Art and Literature
- At the Fountain 1897
- Bacchante 1894
- Bacchante 1899
- Back Field 1898
- Badende
- Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithae
- Beauty Romanesque 1904
- Berceuse 1875
- Bergère Bordeaux 1871
- Bohémienne drum basque 1867
- Bohémienne the drum Basque
- Brother and sister 1887
- Cain and Abel 1861
- Charity 1865
- Child holding flowers 1878
- Child weaving a crown 1874
- Childhood Idyll
- Children asleep 1868
- Children riverside 1879
- Compassion
- Cupid and Psyche, 1889 children
- Cupidon 1875
- Daisies, daisy 1894
- Dante and Virgil in Hell 1850
- Dawn
- Day 1884
- Day of the Dead
- Distraction 1868
- Dusk 1882
- Earrings 188 - 1890
- Elegy
- Elizabeth Jane Gardner 1879
- Espièglerie 1895
- Evening Mood 1882
- Far Niente 1904
- Faun and Bacchante 1860
- First carresses 100x67
- First jewellery 1891
- First Kiss
- Fortunata 1879 46x38
- Genevieve Celine eldest Daughter of Adolphe Bouguereau
- Girl crochet 1889
- Girl dévidant of wool Dévideuse 1877
- Glaneuse 1894
- Gypsy Girl with Tambourine 1867 Basque
- Head girl head with hands 1890
- Head of Italian c.1867
- Head of young woman
- Head Study of a Young Woman 1898
- Heart's Awakening
- Homer and his Guide
- Idyll
- Idylle
- Injury love 1897
- Innocence 1873
- Innocence 1893
- Inspiration 1898
- Irene 1897 46x38
- Italian for the fountain 1870
- Italian mandolin in 1870
- Jacob receiving the tunic of his son c.1845
- Jeannie 1868
- Junges, schwarzhaariges Mädchen in weissem Hemd 1896
- Kanephoros
- La Fille d'Eau
- La Soif 1886
- Lady Maxwell 1890
- L'Age d'Or 1863
- L'Amour 1886 winner
- L'Amour disarmed 1885
- L'Amour in 1894 Epine
- L'amour injured 1857
- L'Amour resting 1891
- L'Aurore
- Le Jour 1884
- Le Repos 1880
- Le Réveil 1865
- Lever
- L'Innocence
- Little Beggar Girl
- Little girl along the creek holding a sheaf of flowers 1886
- Little girl with blue bowl 1879
- L'Oiseau beloved 1867
- Love Conquers all, Love Winner 1886
- Love the butterfly 1888
- Love's Secrets 1896
- Lunch in the morning 1887
- Madonna with the Christ Child and St. John The Baptist 1863
- Marguerite 1903
- Maternal Admiration
- Meditation 1902
- Mignon pensive 1869
- Nymph holding a Laurel Branch 1900
- Nymphs and Satyr 1873
- Offering to Love c.1893
- Orphan by a Spring, an orphan from the fountain 1883
- Outline for L'Amour Nursery
- Outline for The Oranges
- Pâquerette 1894
- Petite beggar 1880
- Pietà 1876
- Pifferaro 1874
- Plums 1896
- Portrait maiden 1890
- Portrait of a Girl
- Portrait of a young Girl 1890
- Portrait of a Young Girl 1896
- Portrait of a Young Girl crocheting 1886
- Portrait of a young Girl plucking the Petals of a Daisy 1881
- Portrait of a young girl, bust length
- Portrait of Adolphe Bouguereau
- Portrait of Amelina Dufaud Bouguereau
- Portrait of Elizabeth Jane Gardner 1879
- Portrait of Eugene Bouguereau
- Portrait of Eugene Bouguereau
- Portrait of Gabrielle Cot 1890
- Portrait of Gabrielle Drienza 1890
- Portrait of Isaac Adolphe Bouguereau
- Portrait of Jennifer Bouguereau
- Portrait of Léonie Bouguereau
- Portrait of Madame de W.
- Portrait of Madame de Wendel
- Portrait of Madame Ginain 1887
- Portrait of Madame Olry-Roederer 1900
- Portrait of Marie-Therese Bartholoni 1865
- Portrait of Miss Addison Head of San Francisco 1874
- Portrait of Pauline Brissac 1864
- Portrait of the Abbot Hontang 1846
- Portrait Study
- Prime jewellery 1891
- Psyche and Cupid 1889
- Putti on a griffin
- Putti on a sea monster 1857
- Range natural, girl-child 1881
- Reflection 1898
- Rêverie 1894
- Secrets of Love 1896
- Self-portrait 1886
- Shepherdess with Sheaf of Wheat 1890
- Sketch of a young Girl's Head
- Sleep 1864
- Slumber
- Small Maraudeuses 1872
- Song of the Angels
- Songs spring 1889
- Summer
- The 1864 War
- The 1895 reading
- The 1898 Dream
- The Abduction of Psyche 1895
- The Annunciation
- The Awakening Heart 1892
- The Bather 1879
- The Big Sister
- The Birth of Venus 1879
- The Bohemian 1890
- The Book of Hours 1867
- The Bouquet 1896
- The brotherly love
- The Charity 1878
- The Crab 1869
- The Dance 1856
- The Day 1884
- The Day of the Dead
- The eldest sister 1886
- The first jewellery 1891
- The ford 1895
- The Grapes, The cluster of grapes 1869
- The Holy Family 1863
- The Idylle 1850
- The Italian mandolin in 1870
- The Italian tambourine in 1869
- The Kiss 1863
- The Lambs 1897
- The Laurel Branch
- The lesson difficult 1880
- The lesson difficult 1884
- The Little Brother, the younger brother 1900
- The little seamstress 1898
- The Lost Pleiad 1884
- The Madonna of the Lilies
- The Madonna of the Roses 1903
- The mischievous One 1895
- The mower 1872
- The muse Philomela 1861
- The muse 1861
- The Nymphaeum 1878
- The Oranges 1865
- The Pearl 1894
- The Return of Market 1869
- The Return of Spring
- The reverence 1898
- The shell 1871
- The small bléssée 1879
- The small Ophelia 1875
- The small tricoteuse 1875
- The small Vendangeuse 1883
- The soup
- The Spring 1858
- The Storm 1874
- The Taste 1895
- The temptation
- The toilet rustic 1869
- The tricoteuse 1884
- The tricoteuse 1891
- The triumph of Venus 1857
- The two sisters 1899
- The veil 1898
- The Virgin and Angels 1900
- The Virgin and lamb 1903
- The Virgin Study for the Angels
- The Virgin, the Child Jesus and Saint John the Baptist 1875
- The vow to Sainte-Anne-d'Auray 1869
- The Wasp's Nest
- The wave 1896
- The wave 1903
- The Winter Autumn
- The young worker 1893
- Trees in a Landscape coastal 1867
- Whisperings of Love
- Woman in a Stiped Dress
- Woman in Italian costume 1867
- Woman in the range 1895
- Woman of Cervara Child and her 1861
- Woman shell 1885
- Young Bathers 1879
- Young Girl
- Young Girl Defending Herself Against Love
- Young Italian drawing of water 1871
- Young John the Baptist
- Young mother contemplating her child 1871
- Young Priestess 1902
- Young shepherdess
- Young woman and child 1878
- Young Woman Contemplating Two Embracing Children
- Youth 1893
- Yvonnette
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