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Modestie
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Modestie
Modestie, Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 72.5 cm, Private collection
Date 1902(1902)
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Dawn
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Dawn
1881(1881)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81 5/8 x 42 1.4 inches
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Portrait of Zenaide de Cambaceres
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Portrait_of_Zenaide_de_Cambaceres
Date 19th century
Medium Oil on canvas
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Spring Breeze
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Spring_Breeze
1895(1895)
Medium Oil on canvas
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The Little Knitter
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The_Little_Knitter
1882(1882)
Medium Oil on canvas
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William-Adolphe_Bouguereau
(November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncle Eugene, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau showed artistic talent early on and his father was convinced by a client to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where he won first prize in figure painting for a depiction of Saint Roch. To earn extra money, he designed labels for jams and preserves
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