William Bouguereau

academic-art

Bouguereau Paintings 1825 - 1905 France, Academic Classicism

Le Printemps [Springtime], 1886

Oil on canvas, 84 5/8 x 46 inches (215 x 117 cm)

Private collection

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OIL PAINTING: Le Printemps [Springtime], 1886
By the time of his death in 1905, Bouguereau was scorned by progressive painters and critics who saw in his paintings all that was wrong with the official French world of art, but Bouguereau was also a favorite of collectors, who found in his paintings of bathers, nymphs, and shepherdesses a realm of eternal beauty far from contemporary life.