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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo

A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price

A merciless teacher trains 2000 young artists

Jean-Léon Gérôme

The Forgotten Master

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist

The theater of sun, sky and mountains

Frederic Edwin Church

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