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The Remorse of Orestes or Orestes Pursued by the Furies
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The_Remorse_of_Orestes_or_Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies
1862
Medium Oil on canvas
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Pastourelle
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Pastourelle
1889(1889)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 62 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches (159 x 93 cm)
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Modestie
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Modestie
Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 72.5 cm, Private collection
Date 1902(1902)
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Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Gardner
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Dimensions 18 x 15 1/8 inches (46 x 38.5 cm)
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L'Art et la Litterature
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L'Art_et_la_Litterature
1867(1867)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 200 X 108 cm (78.7 X 42.5 in)
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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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