Adolphe William Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a Frenchacademic painter. A student at the Académie Julian in Paris, his realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were exhibited in the annual exhibitions of the Paris Salon for his entire working life. Although he fell into disregard, due perhaps to his staunch opposition to the Impressionists, there is a new appreciation for his work.
Bouguereau at Work (http://www.artrenewal.com/museum/b/Bouguereau_William/mark_walker1.asp)
Nymphs and Satyr (http://www.clarkart.edu/museum_programs/featuredObjectDetail.cfm?ID=15&nav=3#)
Eric Harshbarger (http://www.ericharshbarger.org/l) is a commercial artist who uses Lego blocks to create major, non-traditional works. For Christmas 2003, Harshbarger rendered William-Adolphe Bouguereau's painting, Song Of The Angels (http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/song_of_the_angels.html).
Bouguereau's many students included Cecilia Beaux, Frank Bicknell, Eanger Irving Couse, Louis Dessar, Elizabeth Bouguereau, Gaines Donoho, Eurilda France, Ellen Day Hale, Anna Klumpke, Lawton Parker, Edward Redfield, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Paul Chabas, Mary MacMonnies and Thomas Anshutz.
AdolpheWilliamBouguereau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Bouguereau was always eager to include children in his works and he here altered the figure playing Bacchus from the traditional young man to a small child.
In 1881 Bouguereau was commissioned to provide decorations for the Chapelle de la Vierge of the St Vincent-de-Paul church in Paris (in situ).
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