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Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)
Title: Watch and Ward
Medium: Antique steel engraving on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by master engraver Gustave Nicolas Bertinot (1851-1855).
Year: 1877
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 17 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional
notes:
This is not a modern
print. This impression is more than 145 years old. The strike is crisp and the
lines are sharp.
Additional notes:
Bouguereau has painted so many Italian women and children, that the introduction of a pretty American, or English woman, perhaps, as a guardian angel for one of his sleeping babes, will be accepted with pleasure by his admirers, and as a relief from his so often repeated stories. Nothing can be more charming than the figure of the sleeping child, or the thoughtful face of the young mother who is watching over it.
Artist Biography:William-Adolphe
Bouguereau was a French academic painter and traditionalist. In his realistic
genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of
classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. Along with
Alexandre Cabanel, William-Adolphe Bouguereau was the most influential upholder
of the conservative values of French academic art in his day. His paintings
stress those values: precise drawing, contour, and finish, along with strict
adherence to the rules of anatomy, perspective, academic modeling, and
physiognomic expression in which internal character is revealed by outward
appearance. An heir of Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,
Bouguereau's subjects included Classical, mythological, allegorical, or
Orientalist themes, as well as contemporary history.
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