William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Portrait

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French artist born in 1825. Bouguereau contributed to the Neoclassical and Academic movements and died in 1905. Get notified when William-Adolphe Bouguereau's biography is complete:

Dante and Virgil in Hell

Petites Maraudeuses (Little Thieves)

The Virgin, the Baby Jesus and Saint John the Baptist

Virgin Comforter

Pieta

The Birth of Venus

Return of Spring

The First Mourning

The Little Shepherdess

The Abduction of Psyche

The Madonna of the Lilies

The Virgin With Angels

Portrait of Mary Edmonia Lewis

Mary Edmonia Lewis

African-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture

Portrait of Anne-Louis Girodet

Anne-Louis Girodet

A phenom works himself to death

Portrait of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Guardian of the old ways

Portrait of Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

The worst painter of the 19th century

Gottfried Lindauer

Anthropology or exploitation? Portraits of the Māori

Portrait of Edward Mitchell Bannister

Edward Mitchell Bannister

Liberty expressed through landscape

The Forgotten Master

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

A merciless teacher trains 2000 young artists

Jean-Léon Gérôme William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist

A hermit explores the dreamscape

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