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Bouguereau, William
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(1825-1905)
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Adolphe William Bouguereau, b. Nov. 30, 1825, d. Aug. 19, 1905, had a
long, successful career as an academic painter, exhibiting in the annual
Paris Salons for more than 50 years. His paintings of religious,
mythological, and genre subjects were carefully composed and painstakingly
finished. Thus he opposed the admission of works by the impressionists to
the Salon, because he believed that their paintings were no more than
unfinished sketches.
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After a period of neglect following his death, Bouguereau's paintings were
returned to view as part of a renewed interest in and reappraisal of
academic painting and of Ecole des Beaux-Arts works in general. A major
retrospective exhibition opened in Paris and was seen in Montreal and
Hartford, Conn., in 1984. |
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