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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Oval painting of a nude bacchante with ivy wreath riding a leaping panther against a gold patterned background.

Bacchante on a Panther

1855

Two nude women on a rocky shore by the sea, one seated on sand and one standing on a boulder under a blue sky.

The Bathers

1884

Woman with a toddler on her lap beside a sleeping barefoot boy under trees, with a domed building in the distance.

Rest

1879

Painting of a young mother in a white headscarf holding a bare toddler by a stone hearth, both gazing at each other.

Young Mother Gazing at Her Child

1871

Young couple on a balcony, a man in red leaning toward a woman in white, with a spinning wheel and sleeping cat nearby.

The Proposal

1872

Painting of a Breton woman in white headdress holding a barefoot child with red cap and apples in a forest.

Breton Brother and Sister

1871

Nude young woman seated on a stone bench holds back a winged cherub reaching with an arrow, under maple leaves.

A Young Girl Defending Herself against Love

about 1880

Painting of a young girl with auburn hair in a white blouse and blue skirt, holding an apple, seated before green trees.

Girl with an Apple

1905

Two nude children embrace in a leafy wood, one kissing the other's cheek while holding a daisy wreath.

Peace

1860

Three women in dark robes at a tomb, with a white-robed angel in the glowing doorway beside a rolled stone.

The Holy Women at the Tomb or The Three Marys at the Tomb

1890

Oval painting of a nude youth with a lyre riding a green sea horse over a gold patterned background.

Arion on a Sea Horse

1855

Oil portrait of an older bearded painter holding a palette and brushes against a dark background, signed 1895.

Self-portrait

1895

Painting of a grieving man and woman embracing over a nude corpse under a stormy sky on barren ground.

The First Mourning

1888

Painting of the dead Christ held by the Virgin Mary, surrounded by grieving angels, with a golden ewer and crown of thorns.

Pietà

1876

Painting of a barefoot young shepherdess carrying a staff on her shoulders, with cattle grazing in hills behind her.

Pastourelle [The Little Shepherdess]

1889

Painting of a barefoot young shepherdess in a blue skirt holding a branch, with sheep grazing in rolling hills behind her.

The young shepherdess

1885

Painting of a barefoot young woman with a violin seated by a river, with a Gothic cathedral in the misty background.

The Bohemian

1890

Painting of two dancing women in orange and white robes lifting a blue drape among clouds, with a musician playing a tambouri

The Dance

1856

Painting of Dante and Virgil watching two nude men wrestle in a fiery hell, with a winged demon and tormented souls behind.

Dante and Virgil in Hell

1850

Painting of a barefoot girl seated on a grassy hill holding a sleeping baby in a red cap, with a rural landscape behind.

The Elder Sister

1869

Nude Venus stands on a scallop shell at sea, surrounded by cherubs, nymphs and tritons in a pale, cloudy sky.

The Birth of Venus

1879

Two girls rest on grass under leafy trees, one holding a handful of nuts while the other looks at her.

The Nut Gatherers

1882

Nude woman with a white drape lifts a calla lily beside water at dawn, by Bouguereau, 1881.

Dawn

1881

Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ on a throne, surrounded by praying angels, with two kneeling angels swinging golden cen

The Queen of the Angels or The Virgin with Angels

1900

Nude woman with bowed head and clasped hands kneeling by water in a dark forest, painted in the style of Bouguereau.

Biblis

1884

Painting of a nude auburn-haired woman seated on wet sand, looking back over her shoulder before a large breaking wave.

The Wave

1896

Back view of a nude woman leaping upward with raised arms against a purple sky, with faint figures and a star behind her.

L'Etoile Perdue

1884

Nude man covering his ears while three snake-haired Furies with a torch pursue him beside a fallen woman with a dagger.

The Remorse of Orestes or Orestes Pursued by the Furies

1862

Painting of a veiled woman nursing an infant, surrounded by children, with spilled gold coins and marble columns behind her.

Charity

1878

Two oval paintings on gold ground: a youth with a lyre on a sea horse, and a woman with a thyrsus on a panther.

Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair)

1855

Painting of a nude young woman on a stone bench holding back a winged cupid with an arrow beneath maple leaves.

A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros

1880

Painting of a nude woman standing on a rock, arms raised holding her long hair, with white cloth draped behind her.

Bather

1870

Nude woman seated on rocks by the sea, tending her foot, with white drapery and a blue sky behind her.

The Bather

1879

Nude woman with black veil floats against a twilight sky with an owl, bats and stars above a dark landscape.

La Nuit

1883

Painting of nude nymphs dancing in a swirling group above a pond while two satyrs watch from a rock in the foreground.

Les Oréades

1902

Painting of a barefoot girl in a pink skirt writing with a red pencil in a notebook, seated on a stone bench in a forest.

A Calling

1896

Painting of the Virgin and Child on a throne surrounded by rows of praying angels on clouds, with a star halo.

La Vierge aux anges

1900

Painting of a young woman in white drapery holding a ball while a winged cupid embraces her from behind on a garden terrace.

Work interrupted

1891

Painting of a nude woman with long dark hair kneeling at the sea's edge beside a pearl and a conch shell, with waves behind h

The Pearl

1894

Two classically dressed lovers embrace on a stone bench in a garden beside a stone lion and a lyre.

Lovers

1850

Painting of a barefoot girl seated by a stream among green reeds, glancing over her shoulder toward the viewer.

By the stream

1888

Painting of an old man offering pearls and a gold box to a young woman in pink, with a young man behind her under leaves.

Between wealth and love

1869

Painting of a young woman seated outdoors holding a nude toddler on her lap, with vines and yellow flowers behind them.

Before the Bath

1891

Seated woman in green drapery with clasped hands, looking toward the viewer against a pale background.

Réflexion

1905

Painting of a reclining nude woman on a sandy shore with breaking turquoise waves and a pale sky behind her.

Ocean Nymph

1904

Painting of a young woman on a stone bench with two winged cherubs in a forest setting, by Bouguereau, 1892.

The Heart's Awakening

1892

Two barefoot girls sit in a grassy field; one plays a pipe while the other looks at her under a pale cloudy sky.

A Childhood Idyll

1900

Nude female figure floating with red drapery, holding a berry branch toward two birds under a cloudy sky over a landscape.

Day

1884

Painting of a winged youth flying over a nude man lying on the ground, with a white drape and a pale dusk sky behind.

Equality Before Death

1848

Nude woman wading through a forest stream with a winged cherub on her shoulders, a teal drape flowing behind her.

Youth and Love

1877

Two women in classical dress stand in a forest, one holding a lyre and the other a tambourine, both wearing wreaths.

Philomela and Procne

1861

Painting of a haloed woman in black seated on a throne, holding a sleeping child, with a limp infant and roses below.

Vierge consolatrice

1877

Painting of a nude woman seated on a rocky shore, arms raised to her hair, with waves and a dark cave behind her.

La toilette de Vénus

1873

Two women in black mourning dress lay a yellow wreath at a stone cross in an autumn cemetery.

All Soul's Day

1859

Oil portrait of a young woman with curly brown hair in a white lace blouse with a bow, against a dark background.

Gabrielle Cot

1890

Oil portrait of a young girl with a blue ribbon holding a green apple, standing in a doorway, by Bouguereau, 1901.

Yvonne sur le pas de la porte

1901

Oval painted portrait of a woman with dark hair in a dark dress and lace collar against a patterned brown background.

Portrait of Amelina Dufaud Bouguereau

1850

Study Of A Woman For Offering To Love (Unknown)

1890

Painting of a seated young woman in a blue dress and pink bow, holding white cloth in a wooden chair by a patterned wall.

Portrait of Léonie Bouguereau

1850

Seated woman in a black dress with white lace cuffs, hands folded, against a muted green wall.

A Portrait of Geneviève Bouguereau

1850

Oil portrait of a young girl in a striped gold headscarf holding a split pomegranate, against a pale background.

Girl with a pomegranate

1875

Painting of a young woman in a white dress holding her braid before a hazy mountain landscape.

Template:The Waiting

1901

Painting of a young girl in a white dress reading a red book in a carved wooden chair against a pale wall.

The prize book

1901

Nude woman with a white lily and billowing veil stands by water at dawn, with green plants framing the left side.

L'Aurore

1881

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.

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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