William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 

Innocence 1893.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a 

French painter who used mythological 

and religious themes in his paintings, 

reproducing the appearance of his 

models with photographic precision. 

Bouguereau painted 822 famous 

completed paintings, the whereabouts 

of many of them still unknown.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Pietà 1876.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 

Whisperings of Love 1889.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Holy Women 

at the Tomb or The Three Marys 

at the Tomb 1876.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Young Shepherdess 1868.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Art and 

Literature 1867.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The 

Virgin with Angels 1900.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Portrait 

of Monsignor Thomas, Bishop of La 

Rochelle 1877.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The 

Shepherdess 1873.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 

Madonna and Child 1888.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Dante and Virgil in Hell 1850.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Day of the Dead 1859.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The 

Virgin of the Angels 1881.