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William-Adolphe Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) 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. Although he created an idealized world, his almost photo-realistic style was popular with rich art patrons. He was very famous in his time but today his subject matter and technique receive relatively little attention compared to the popularity of the Impressionists. Life and career 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 Eugène, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau sh...

Courbet Selfportrait Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819–31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social commentary in his work. Realism Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, and still-lifes. He courted controversy by addressing social issues in his work, and by painting subjects that were considered vulgar: the rural bourgeoisie and peasantry, and the working conditions of the poor. His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. History painting, which the Paris Salon esteemed as a painter's highest calling, did not interest Courbet...

Jean-François Millet. The Gleaners. 1857. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Artist Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) Title The Gleaners Deutsch: Ährenleserinnen Français : Des glaneuses Year 1857 Technique Deutsch: Leinwand Dimensions 84 × 111 cm (33.07 × 43.70 in) Current location Musée d'Orsay Paris Notes Deutsch: Schule von Barbizon, Genremalerei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(visual_arts)

Selfportrait of Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet (Auto-Retrato) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Courbet History of painting This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. 1819 births | 1877 deaths | People from Doubs | French painters | French anarchists | French socialists | Realist painters | People of the Paris Commune | Légion d'honneur refusals