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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Painting of a nude winged Cupid seated on a branch, drawing a bow with a blue quiver of arrows in a forest.

On the Lookout

1896

Painting of a nude young man seated beside a standing woman in white drapery in a shaded forest, holding a flower.

Idyll

1850

Painting of two nude adults and a nude infant seated under grapevine leaves in a wooded landscape.

The Golden Age

1863

Two nude children in a forest wrestle playfully, one pulling the other's hair beside a tree and an apple.

La Guerre

1864

Painting of a young woman with dark hair holding pink gladiolus, seated on a hillside before blue mountains.

Le glaïeul

1904

Portrait de Joseph Gabriel Tourny

1852

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black high-collared coat against a warm ochre background, painted in Rome in 1852.

Portrait de Félix Chabaud

1852

Bust-length portrait of a dark-haired man with a mustache in a black coat against an ochre background.

Portrait de Gabriel-Jules Thomas

1854

Self-portrait of a young man with dark hair, dark jacket and red bow tie against a golden background.

Autoportrait

1854

Painting of a woman in a lace blouse kissing the head of a child who looks up at her, against a dark background.

Le lever

1865

Two girls gather hazelnuts in a forest, one reaching up to a branch while the other kneels beside a basket of nuts.

Récolte de noisettes

1883

Painting of a barefoot young woman carrying a shrimp net and basket along a rocky shore with boats on the sea.

shrimp girl

1868

Oil portrait of a young woman with dark curly hair wearing a laurel wreath, a blue bodice and yellow sleeves, against a dark

Head of an Italian girl with a laurel wreath

1872

Oil portrait of a young girl with dark hair wrapped in a striped shawl, hands clasped at her chest, against a dark background

The chilly woman

1879

Oil portrait of a young child in white dress holding an orange, seated barefoot on a blue stool before dark foliage.

Portrait of a Child of Madame Porter

1889

Oil self-portrait of a young man with dark hair, black collar and blue jacket against a gray background.

Self-portrait

1853

Painting of a barefoot girl in a blue skirt knitting dark wool on a stone wall beside a wooden bucket, with a landscape behin

The Knitting Girl

1884

Oval painting of a laurel-crowned woman holding a lyre, set against rocky cliffs and a sea under a pale sky.

The Muse (Philomèle)

1861

Painting of a barefoot shepherdess in a red headscarf holding a newborn lamb beside a sheep in a forest clearing.

L'Agneau Nouveau-Ne (The Shepherdess)

1873

Painting of a girl riding on the back of a smiling boy crawling on grass in a sunlit forest clearing.

La Bourrique (The Horseback Ride) This is a featured picture on the Persian language Wikipedia (نگاره‌های برگزیده) an…

1884

Young woman in pink dress seated between an elderly man offering a gold casket of pearls and a young man in a dark vest.

Hesitating between Love and Riches

1869

Painting of a barefoot girl with a blue necklace seated on a stone bench, holding out one hand, before a rocky landscape.

Little Beggar

1880

Oil painting of a young woman in white drapery holding a gold box, against a dark background, by Bouguereau.

Pandore

1890

Painting of a barefoot girl in a plaid shawl seated on a stone well beside a broken green pitcher, with a hazy landscape behi

The Broken Pitcher

1891

Woman lying on grass offers an apple to a nude toddler beside a pond under trees, by Bouguereau, 1880.

Temptation

1880

Painting of a nude woman leaning on a stone pedestal with roses, beside a weeping winged cupid in a wooded setting.

Elegy

1899

Painting of a nude woman with long brown hair stepping from a bank by water, with red drapery and dark forest behind her.

Bathing Woman

1864

Painting of a young woman in yellow dress watching two embracing nude children with flower wreaths under a tree.

Young Woman Contemplating Two Embracing Children

1861

Woman in teal dress holding a seashell to a girl's ear in a room with bookshelves and a patterned carpet.

Binnenhuis, objectnr SA 1145

1840

Woman holding a lit candle beside a sleeping girl in a white bonnet, with a religious statuette on a shelf at left.

The Thank Offering

1867

Painting of a young woman in white holding a toddler with blond curls against a dark background.

The Elder Sister, reduction (La soeur aînée, réduction)

1864

Painting of a dark-haired young woman holding lemons with a leafy branch, set before lavender mountains and sea.

Girl Holding Lemons

1899