The quality of artworks produced by this French painter is incredible and this was greatly appreciated at the height of his career in the late 19th century. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) produced Neoclassical paintings that often featured mythological subjects, but he integrated a sense of realism that was unseen before. He was the most famous Neoclassical …
William-Adolphe Bouguereau paintings
This popular French artist was one of the leading academic painters of the 19th century and his paintings were prominently displayed at the Paris Salon every single year. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) lived, however, at a period when the art world was seeing a radical shift away from the amazingly realistic style that he embraced. Because …