William-Adolphe Bouguereau, self-portrait (1886)

William Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. Download high resolution version (1658x2000, 715 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1658x2000, 715 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanel, 1863 Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. ...

Biography

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle. La Rochelle is a town and commune of western France, and a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean (population 76,584 in 1999). ...

A student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1850 and his realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Paris Salon for his entire working life. Although he fell into disregard in the early 20th century, due perhaps to his staunch opposition to the Impressionists, there is a new appreciation for his work. In his lifetime, Bouguereau painted eight hundred and twenty-six paintings. cole des Beaux Arts refers to several art schools in France. ... Part of the Paris region skyline with from left to right: Montparnasse Tower, Eiffel Tower, and La Défense. ... The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for art students. ... Realism in art and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear, without embellishment or interpretation. ... Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, attempts to depict aspects of everyday life, via portraits of ordinary people engaged in common activities. ... Honoré Daumier satirized the bourgeoises scandalized by the Salons Venuses, 1864 The Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris) is the official art exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris, France. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ...

Venus (detail) by Bouguereau

In his own time, Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world. In 1900, his contemporaries Degas and Monet reportedly named him as most likely to be remembered as the greatest 19th-century French painter by the year 2000, according to chairman Fred Ross of the Art Renewal Center. Although with Degas' famous trenchant wit, and the aesthetic tendencies of the two Impressionists, it is possible the statement was meant as an ironic comment on the taste of the future public. Bouguereau's works were eagerly bought, at high prices, especially by American millionaires. After about 1920, Bouguereau fell into a curious disrepute. Some assert this may have been consciously engineered by the new "art expert establishment", who resented his former opposition to new developments in painting, but it is likely that more profound societal factors were instrumental to this enormous shift in taste and sensibility. For decades, his name was not even mentioned in encyclopedias. Today, over one hundred museums throughout the world exhibit his works. Venus, classical personification of femininity. ... Venus, classical personification of femininity. ... Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. ... Claude Monet. ... Art Renewal Center, organisation which is dedicated to bringing back the classical realism style of art to society today, and opposed to modernist developments in art of the 20th Century. ... Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. ...

At a rather advanced age, Bouguereau was married for the second time, to fellow artist Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau, one of his pupils. He also used his influence to open many French art institutions to women for the first time, including the Académie française. The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...

Real name dilemma

W.Bouguereau signature (detail)

Sources on his full name are contradictory; some give William-Adolphe Bouguereau (composed name), William Adolphe Bouguereau (usual and civil-only names according to the French tradition), while others give Adolphe William Bouguereau (with Adolphe as the usual name). However, the artist used to sign his works simply as William Bouguereau (hinting "William" was the usual name), or more precisely as "W.Bouguereau.date" (French alphabet) and later as "W-BOVGVEREAV-date" (Latin alphabet).

Sample of works

The Shell (1871)

Interrupted Work (1891)

A Little Coaxing (1890)

The Virgin, Jesus & St J.-Baptist (1875)

Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850)

• Dante and Virgil in Hell 1850
• La Danse 1850
• Tobias Saying Good-Bye to his Father 1860
• Alone in the World (Latest 1867)
• The Knitting Girl 1869
• Le Coquillage 1871
• The First Kiss 1873
• Nymphs and Satyr 1873
• Cupidon 1875
• La Vierge, L'Enfant Jésus et Saint Jean-Baptiste 1875
• The Birth of Venus 1879
• Evening Mood 1882
• The Nut Gatherers 1882
• Crown of Flowers 1884
• Le Printemps (The Return of Spring) 1886
• The Shepherdess 1889
• The Bohemian 1890
• Câlinerie 1890
• The Little Shepherdess 1891
• Le Travail Interrompu (Pénélope) 1891
• Invading Cupid's Realm 1892
• L'Innocence 1893
• The Abduction of Psyche 1895
• The Young Shepherdess 1895
• Before the Bath (1900)
• The Virgin With Angels 1900
• Young Priestess 1902
• The Madonna of the Roses 1903

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See also

• William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery
• Art nouveau, Alfons Mucha

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