William Adolphe Bouguereau
53 public-domain plates in the archive
William Adolphe Bouguereau started drawing at an early age but did not take lessons until 1834, his first year in college in Pons, where his instructor was Louis Sage, who had been a pupil of Ingres (q.v.). In 1841 Bouguereau's father, a wine merchant, moved the family to Bordeaux. The following year he was allowed to attend the École Municipale de Dessin et de Peinture, where he studied under Jean-Paul Alaux. Bouguereau became a bookkeeper for another wine merchant in order to meet the cost of the school. By 1844 he had won the first prize for figure painting, which further encouraged him...
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Virgin of Consolation
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Young Mother in Campagna Costume with her Child and a Goat
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Philomela and Procne
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Youth and Love
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Equality Before Death
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Orestes Pursued by the Furies
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Lost Pleiad
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Cupid on the lookout
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The Nymphaeum
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Flora and Zephyr
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The Wave
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Byblis
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The Virgin With Angels
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The Virgin of the Lilies
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Whisperings of Love
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Spring songs
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Spring dream
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A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros
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Charity
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Charity
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Young Shepherdess
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Small shepherd
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At the Edge of the Brook
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At the Edge of the Brook
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Little Thieves
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Seated Nude
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The Two Bathers
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The Knitting Girl
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The abduction of Psyche
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Madonna with child and John the Baptist
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Cupid with a Butterfly
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The Nut Gatherers
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The Young Shepherdess
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The Goose Girl
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Dusk
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The Bohemian
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The Dance
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Dante and Virgil in Hell
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Nymphs and Satyr
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Wet Cupid
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The Birth of Venus
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Amor and Psyche, children
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Alone in the World
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Pietà
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The Return of Spring
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The First Mourning
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The Bathers
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The Virgin and Child
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A Calling
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Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair)
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Arion on a Sea Horse
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Bacchante on a Panther
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