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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | In his own time Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters on earth. In 1900 his contemporaries Degas and Monet reportedly named him as most likely to be remembered as the greatest 19th century French painter by the year 2000 according to chairman Fred Ross of the Art Renewal Center His works were eagerly bought at high prices especially by American millionaires. After about 1920 Bouguereau fell into a curious disrepute. Some assert this may have been consciously engineered by the new "art expert establishment" who resented his former opposition to new developments in painting but it is likely that more profound societal factors were instrumental to this enormous shift in taste and sensibility. For decades his name was not even mentioned in encyclopedias. Today over one hundred museums throughout the world exhibit his works. At a rather advanced age Bouguereau married for the second time with fellow artist Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau one of his pupils. He also used his influence to open many French art institutions to women for the first time including the Academie Française. French painter. From 1838 to 1841 he took drawing lessons from Louis Sage a pupil of Ingres while attending the collège at Pons. In 1841 the family moved to Bordeaux where in 1842 his father allowed him to attend the Ecole Municipale de Dessin et de Peinture part-time under Jean-Paul Alaux. In 1844 he won the first prize for figure painting which confirmed his desire to become a painter. As there were insufficient family funds to send him straight to Paris he painted portraits of the local gentry from 1845 to 1846 to earn money. In 1846 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Paris in the studio of François-Edouard Picot. | | Headline | Nyphaeum | | Copyright Notice | wiki/William-Adolphe Bouguereau French 1825-1905 | | URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau | | User | Guest |
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