Discover watercolorist, painter, draftsperson William Adolphe Bouguereau

Name variations

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: Bougereau, Adolphe William
Bouguereau, William
Sisyphe
werd Sisyphe genoemd door zijn kameraden (Bonnet 2007, p. 118)

Qualifications: watercolorist, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: French

Born: La Rochelle 1825-11-30

Deceased: La Rochelle 1905-08-19

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2 hits in RKDimages as artist
9 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Education: École des Beaux-Arts (Parijs)

Active in

Parijs 1846
werkte hier in het atelier van Picot en ging aan de École des Beaux-Arts studeren (Bonnet 2007)
Rome 1851-01 - 1853-04
verbleef na het winnen van 'Second Grand Prix de Rome' in 1850 vier jaar in de Villa Médicis te Rome (Bonnet 2007)
Cervara di Roma 1851 - 1853
twee bezoeken: april 1851 en augustus 1853

born in

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Matisse, Henri
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Adler, Jules
Amiet, Cuno
André, Albert
Angiboult, François
Barratt, Reginald
Baudoin, Jean-Franck
Bellanger, Camille-Félix
Bideaux, Gaston
Bosch Reitz, Gijs
Brass, Italico
Brougier, Adolf William
Calmettes, Pierre
Carstensen, Ebba
Chabas, Maurice
Chalfant, Jefferson David
Clausen, George
Collin, Raphael
Conkling, Mabel
Corinth, Lovis
Crotti, Jean
Csók, Istvan
Des Gachons, André Stanislas Albert
Desgoffe, Blaise
Désiré-Lucas, Louis-Marie
Dinet, Etienne
Dørnberger, Karl
Dubé, Mattie
Eilshemius, Louis-Michel
Engelhart, Cathinca
Erler, Fritz
Evans, De Scott
Ewald, Clara
Fenyes, Adolphe
Gampenrieder, Karl
Gaspard, Leon
Godefroy, Louis
Hawkins, Louis Welden
Hilder, G. Howard
Hinton, Charles Louis
Hirschfeld, Emil Benediktov
Jacquet, Gustave Jean
King, Edward
Korochansky, Michel
Le Riche, Henri
List, Wilhelm
Luchian, Ștefan
Mulertt, Eugène
Nys, Charles
Pahlmann, Hans
Pann, Abel
Patrick, John Douglas
Peploe, Samuel John
Perrault, Léon Bazile
Putz, Leo
Renault, Gaston
Roussel, Ker Xavier
Roux-Champion, Victor Joseph
Royer, Lionel
Schultz-Wettel, Fernand
Seignac, Guillaume
Simon, Jacques Roger
Suréda, André
Troncy, Emile
Verona, Artur Garguromin
Vuillard, Édouard
Weise, Robert

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, history (genre), nude figure, portrait, Christian religious scene

Prijzen

Prix de Rome
won in 1848 de 'Second Prix de Rome' en in 1850 de 'Second Grand Prix de Rome'; won in 1855 een tweede prijs bij de l'Exposition Universelle en een eerste prijs bij de Salon 1857 (Bonnet 2007)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 9 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 443 (as: Bouguereau, Adolphe William)
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 2, p. 221 (as: Bouguereau, William Adolphe)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 37 (as: Bouguereau, Adolphe William)
Saur 1992- , vol. 13 (1996), p. 320 (as: Bouguereau, Adolphe William)
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 2, p. 640 (as: Bouguereau, William Adolphe)

G. Ventura, 'Intention, interpretation and reception: the aestheticization of poverty in William Bouguereau's "Indigent Family"', Visual Resources 33 (2017) nos. 3-4, p. 204-233

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Project: Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: http://www.classicalrealism.com/ASCR_home/news/Bouguereau_Catalog_Update_Issue8.htm
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.3838

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Creation date: 1991-11-21; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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