Bouguereau, William-Adolphe [French, 1825-1905]

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La Charite, 1878
Oil on canvas
77.17 x 46.06 inches

A beautiful woman offering nurturing, sustenance and knowledge to
five children. "Charity is a truly exquisite painting using symbolic
imagery to portray the true meaning of selflessness." (Fred Ross)
In May of 2000, this painting sold at Christie's for $3,520,000.

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Nymphes et Satyre, 1873
Oil on canvas
102.36 x 70.87 inches

This painting is in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
in Williamstown Mass, USA. Lenn Lowry, director of the MOMA, when
aged 7 was found by his parents staring at the painting. "I
remember being completely transfixed by it," he said.

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Naissance de Venus, 1879
Oil on canvas
118.11 x 85.83 inches

Similar to Botticelli's Birth of Venus, this Bouguereau shows Venus,
the bringer of joy, on a shell in the middle of the ocean surrounded
by admirers. Two mermen use conch shells to trumpet her arrival.
Twenty-two well worked out figures in a brilliant composition.