The son of Théodore Bouguereau (born 1800) and Marie Bonnin (1804), known as Adeline, William was brought up a Catholic. William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France, on 30 November 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He finished 822 known paintings, but the whereabouts of many are still unknown. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. He also used his influence to open many French art institutions to women for the first time, including the Academie francaise.William-Adolphe Bouguereau ( French pronunciation: 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. Today, over one hundred museums throughout the world exhibit his works.Īt a rather advanced age, Bouguereau was married for the second time, to fellow artist Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau, one of his pupils. For decades, his name was not even mentioned in encyclopedias. 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. After about 1920, Bouguereau fell into disrepute. Bouguereau's works were eagerly bought, at high prices, especially by American millionaires. 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, 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. In his own time, Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world. In his lifetime, Bouguereau painted eight hundred and twenty-six paintings. 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. William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter, he was born in La Rochelle.Ī 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. Sir John Everett Millais paintings (246).William McGregor Paxton Paintings (136).Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Paintings (245).Frederick Arthur Bridgman Paintings (208).John Frederick Herring Sr Paintings (852).John William Waterhouse Paintings (118).Frederick Carl Frieseke Paintings (185).Charles Courtney Curran Paintings (150).Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Paintings (30).Maurice Brazil Prendergast Paintings (349).Frederick Childe Hassam Paintings (808).Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Paintings (279).
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