William Bouguereau canvas prints & artprints

William Bouguereau : biography

William Bouguereau, known as well with the following name Gulielmus-Adolphus Bouguereau, is a painter born in 1825 in La Rochelle, France and who died in 1905 in La Rochelle, France. William Bouguereau belonged to the romanticism, academism, neoclassicism art style. He mainly worked during the classical period in the 19 century.

William Bouguereau : his main artworks

William Bouguereau is famous for the following art works : dante and virgile in hell, la vierge aux anges, la femme et l'amour... which are numerous illustrations of his favorite subject of work : literature, nude, religion, mythology, history, feminine beauty... In order to stare at his work in a museum or gallery, you need to go to musée d'orsay, paris, france, musée du petit-palais, paris, france, private collection. The art work of William Bouguereau are, indeed, mainly kept in musée d'orsay, paris, france, musée du petit-palais, paris, france, private collection. Muzéo offers high quality canvas prints & artprints of the main artworks made by William Bouguereau to embellish your home or your office.

William Bouguereau : his life as an artist

William Bouguereau began his artist training in Beaux-Arts de Paris, France. Then William Bouguereau continue his training and study with François Edouard Picot. William Bouguereau and Elizabeth Jane Gardner are related and belong to the same family of artists. Among his students and apprentices, we noted that he taught Guillaume Seignac, Jean-Léon Gérôme Ferris, Lionel Noel Royer, Paul Chabas, Alexandre-Jacques Chantron, Etienne Dinet, Pierre-Auguste Cot, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Louis Joseph Raphaël Collin, Léon Bazile Perrault, Clémentine-Hélène Dufau, François Albert Delobbe, Lucien Simon, Henri Biva, Theophile Louis Deyrolle, Emile René Ménard, Etienne Azambre, Charles-Amable Lenoir, Georges Meunier, Robert Cozad Henri, Eugène Assezat de Bouteyre, William Laparra, Eugène Lomont, Jacques Cancaret, Stefan Luchian, Arthur Verona, William Blair Bruce, Gheorghe Petrascu, Peter Mork Monsted.

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