DETAILS
- Artist
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Date
- 1882
- Location
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Culture
- France
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THE ARTIST
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
1825–1905 · FranceWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau, a master of academic painting, captivated 19th-century audiences with his mythological and realistic genre scenes.
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Further Works by Bouguereau
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Breton Brother and Sister
1871 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Young Mother Gazing at Her Child
1871 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Proposal
1872 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Little Girl
1878 · National Museum of Western Art
The Bathers
1884 · Art Institute of Chicago
The Young Shepherdess
1885 · San Diego Museum of Art
Souvenir
1895 · Carnegie Museum of Art
Venus and Cupid.
1903 · Museum of John Paul II Collection
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More works to explore
Beyond Bouguereau: works from the same years.
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Cart with Red and White Ox
Vincent van Gogh · 1884 · Kröller-Müller Museum
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Madame Léon Clapisson
Léon-Victor Dupré · 1883 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Okada Saburosuke · 1884 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Cliff Walk at Pourville
Claude Monet · 1882 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Woman and Child at the Well
Camille Pissarro · 1882 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Woman in a Garden
Berthe Morisot · 1882 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Potted Plant
Edvard Munch · 1881 · Munch Museum
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Scene at Napanoch
William Hart · 1883 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1860s–1890s
The Little One Is Dreaming, Etude
Paul Gauguin · 1881 · Ordrupgaard
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Café Singer
Edgar Degas · 1879 · Art Institute of Chicago
