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Adolphe William Bouguereau: Pietà, 1876
Photograph by Sharon Mollerus, Creative Commons licensed
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Adolphe William Bouguereau
[French Academic Painter, 1825-1905]
| • Relationships: | Husband of Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau.
Studied under François-Edouard Picot.
Bouguereau's many students included Cecilia Beaux, Frank Bicknell, Eanger Irving Couse, Louis Dessar, Elizabeth Bouguereau, Gaines Donoho, Eurilda France, Ellen Day Hale, Anna Klumpke, Lawton Parker, Edward Redfield, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Paul Chabas, Mary MacMonnies and Thomas Anshutz. | | • Browse all: French artists |
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I accept and respect all schools of painting which have as their basis the sincere study of nature, the search for the true and the beautiful. As for the mystics, the impressionists, the pointillists, etc., I don't see the way they see. That is my only reason for not liking them.
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Adolphe William Bouguereau Works Online
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Original works by Adolphe William Bouguereau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Charity, 1865
Adolphe William Bouguereau at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tobias Saying Good-Bye to his Father, 1860
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros, 1880
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Many works on paper online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
The Elder Sister, 1869
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida
Jeune Bergère (Young Shepherdess)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Virgin and Child, 1888
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Maternity
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Madonna with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Prayer to the Virgin Mary
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Nymphs and Satyr, 1873
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
Seated Nude, 1884
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Return from the Harvest, 1878
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
2 works online
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
The Song Of The Nightingale
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
The Song of the Nightingale, 1895
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Childhood Idyll
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California
Song of the Angels, 1881
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Information about the 2007 exhibition In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau & His American Students
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
3 artworks online (works are shown alphabetically by artist; scroll down to line 3)
Haggin Museum, California
The Nymphaeum, 1878
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Goose Girl
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Return of Spring, 1886
The Knitting Girl, 1869
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Washerwomen of Fouesnant
Young Priestess
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Homer and His Guide
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
2 works online
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma
The Shepherdess
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Evening Prayer
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
Admiration, 1875
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
The Young Shepherdess, 1885
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
Going to the Bath
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
Raspberry Girl
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Girl Holding Lemons, 1899
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
The Penitent, 1876
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
2 works online
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Baadster (Bather)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Adolphe William Bouguereau at The Art Renewal Center
Long article on the artist
Adolphe William Bouguereau at The Athenaeum 
59 works online by Bouguereau
Adolphe William Bouguereau in the Web Gallery of Art
Adolphe William Bouguereau in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Adolphe William Bouguereau at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Adolphe William Bouguereau at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros
Humanities Web
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Adolphe William Bouguereau 
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RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
Aristos - An Online Review of the Arts
"Bouguereau's Legacy", an article from 1982 in .PDF format
The Art Renewal Center
"William Bouguereau: Genius Reclaimed"
The Art Renewal Center
"Bouguereau at Work"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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