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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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Original works by Adolphe William Bouguereau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
The Harvest Girl
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Adolphe William Bouguereau at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Loves Resistance, drawing, 1885
The Broken Pitcher, 1891
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tobias Saying Good-Bye to his Father, 1860
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
The Virgin of the Angels, pen and ink drawing, 1881
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros, 1880
Adolphe William Bouguereau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
3 paintings by Adolphe William Bouguereau online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
3 works
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
7 works by Adolphe William Bouguereau online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Charity
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
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
A Calling
Rest
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
Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)
2 works online
Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)
Baadster (Bather)
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 NEW!
3 paintings online
Haggin Museum, California
The Nymphaeum, 1878
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Goose Girl
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
2 works online; You must type "bouguereau" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button
Adolphe William Bouguereau in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
The Story Book, 1877
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
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Thank Offering
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
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "B"
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, England
The Penitent, 1876
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
The Penitent
Pictures from Image Archives:
Adolphe William Bouguereau in the Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Étude: tête de jeune fille (Study: head of a young girl)
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Baigneuse Accroupie (Seated Bather)
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Paquerettes
Adolphe William Bouguereau at CGFA
Mike's Photo Album
Over 100 scans
Adolphe William Bouguereau in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Adolphe William Bouguereau at ArtMagick
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
Lots of works by Bouguereau - the other Yoder links have better scans, though
Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
3 scans online
Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
The Bather, 1879
Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
Femme Au Coquillage, 1885
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Adolphe William Bouguereau at ImageNETion
Girl Defending Herself Against Love
PBase Photo Sharing
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Shadowland
The Athenaeum
58 works online by Bouguereau
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Beloit College Department of Classics
Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1862
Beloit College Department of Classics
Nymphs and Satyr
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online)
Le Jour
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Adolphe William Bouguereau
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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
Art Renewal Center
"William Bouguereau: Genius Reclaimed"
Art Renewal Center
"Bouguereau at Work"
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