William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter, best known for his realist depictions of the human figure set within Neoclassical and rustic settings. View William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 881 artworks ...

W illiam Bouguereau, a prominent French academic painter during the 1880s and early 1900s, eloquently captured in his paintings what all inevitably lose with age and time: innocence and freedom.

MILWAUKEE — Being surrounded by the fin-de-siècle paintings of French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) is like being in the live butterfly room of a natural history museum.

Several weeks back, reader Johnny Cat suggested Bouguereau's paintings for "˜Feel Art Again.' Adolphe William Bouguereau's "A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros" seems a good painting for ...