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Painting
Washerwomen of Fouesnant
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, (La Rochelle, France, 1825 – 1905, La Rochelle, France)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
France
1825 - 1905
Male
30 x 23 5/8 in. (76.2 x 60 cm)
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Oil
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1869
1869
1869
1800-1900, 19th century, genre scenes, jobs & work, paintings, women
Painting
In Fouesnant, a bay in Brittany, Bouguereau found the source material that would fuel his work for years to come. Academic artists viewed scenes of peasants performing their usual daily chores as a modern-day counterpart to the rustic figures of antiquity so beloved in historical paintings. Despite their circumstances, peasants in Academic paintings were usually depicted as clean, well-fed and neatly dressed. Here a girl carrying laundry resembles a caryatid, a classical figure used to support an architectural pediment.
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1955.61
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Painting
Young Priestess
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, (La Rochelle, France, 1825 – 1905, La Rochelle, France)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
France
1825 - 1905
Male
71 1/4 x 32 in. (181 x 81.3 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1902
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1902
1900-2000, 20th century, Orientalism, paintings, women
Painting
Bouguereau's idealized figures, with their realistically-rendered surfaces and painstaking level of finish, show a technical mastery that still astonishes. Here the fluid fabrics of the priestess's garments and the drapery behind her contrast sharply with her pale flesh and the stone mosaic of the floor. The lack of context invites viewers to provide the figure with a narrative. This painting, completed when the artist was almost 80, demonstrates a return to the themes of classical antiquity that had been mainstays of his youthful work.
Bouguereau had a typical Academic education: he studied anatomy, classical literature and archaeology along with drawing and painting, and spent a year in Rome where he took inspiration from Renaissance artists. A member of the Academy throughout his career, his paintings were regularly included in the annual Salon exhibitions.
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