William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 119 years ago |
Date of birth | November 30,1825 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | La Rochelle |
France | |
Date of died | August 19,1905 |
Died | La Rochelle |
France | |
On view | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Musée d'Orsay | |
Detroit Institute of Arts | |
Getty Publications | |
Periods | Neoclassicism |
Realism | |
Academic art | |
Symbolism | |
Modern art | |
Known for | Painter |
Spouse | Elizabeth Jane Gardner |
Marie-Nelly Monchablon | |
Job | Painter |
Drafter | |
Visual Artist | |
Teaching artist | |
Education | National School of Fine Arts |
Period by artworks | Neoclassicism |
Realism | |
Academic art | |
Symbolism | |
Modern art | |
Parents | Théodore Bouguereau |
Marie Marguérite Bouguereau | |
Works | Dante and Virgil |
The Shepherdess | |
Pietà | |
Nymphs and Satyr | |
The Birth of Venus | |
Place of burial | Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1818135 |
William-Adolphe Bouguereau Life story
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.