Young Girl
Artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905
Oil on canvas, 1886
By the 19th century, two views of femininity had developed, the Romantic, or Pre-Raphaelite view where the woman was etherial and spiritual, and the Realistic view where the woman was placed into a natural setting.
In this painting the young woman is a shepherdess, and she is not accepting any nonsense. You can practically hear her telling Dante Gabriel Rossetti to put up his paints and clean up that mess his sheep have made. That left foot is going to start tapping in another minute.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, an academically-trained artist, is best known for his paintings of mythological images and scenes of everyday peasant life. He preferred to work in a precise, finished style rather than the loose, spontaneous, brushstrokes made famous by his contemporaries.
In Young Girl, Bouguereau depicts a nearly life-size shepherdess, one of his favorite subjects.
Young Girl
Artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905
Oil on canvas, 1886
By the 19th century, two views of femininity had developed, the Romantic, or Pre-Raphaelite view where the woman was etherial and spiritual, and the Realistic view where the woman was placed into a natural setting.
In this painting the young woman is a shepherdess, and she is not accepting any nonsense. You can practically hear her telling Dante Gabriel Rossetti to put up his paints and clean up that mess his sheep have made. That left foot is going to start tapping in another minute.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, an academically-trained artist, is best known for his paintings of mythological images and scenes of everyday peasant life. He preferred to work in a precise, finished style rather than the loose, spontaneous, brushstrokes made famous by his contemporaries.
In Young Girl, Bouguereau depicts a nearly life-size shepherdess, one of his favorite subjects.