After about 1920, Bouguereau fell into disrepute. Bouguereau's works were eagerly bought, at high prices, especially by American millionaires. 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, although with Degas' famous trenchant wit, and the aesthetic tendencies of the two Impressionists, it is possible the statement was meant as an ironic comment on the taste of the future public. In his own time, Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world. In his lifetime, Bouguereau painted eight hundred and twenty-six paintings.
Although he fell into disregard in the early 20th century, due perhaps to his staunch opposition to the Impressionists, there is a new appreciation for his work. William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter, he was born in La Rochelle.Ī student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1850 and his realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Paris Salon for his entire working life.
Charles Courtney Curran Paintings (150).Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Paintings (30).Maurice Brazil Prendergast Paintings (349).Frederick Childe Hassam Paintings (808).Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Paintings (279).
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