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Bouguereau 1879\r\n\r\n", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 444774, "title": "William-Adolphe Bouguereau", "description": "<i>William-Adolphe Bouguereau</i>. The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (organizer) (December 13, 1974-January 26, 1975).", "opening_date": "1974-12-13T05:00:00"}, {"id": 311444, "title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum", "description": "<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).", "opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"}, {"id": 307305, "title": "Bouguereau & America", "description": "<i>Bouguereau & America</i>. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (February 14-May 12, 2019); Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (organizer) (June 22-September 22, 2019).", "opening_date": "2019-02-14T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "New York Cultural Center. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1975), no. 15, pl. 15.", "opening_date": "1975-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Gifu (Japan), Museum of Fine Arts; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art. Paris autour de 1882 (1982-83), no. 13, pl. 13.", "opening_date": "1982-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Petit Palais; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum. William Bouguereau 1825-1905 (1984-85), 64, 108, no. 90 (repr.).", "opening_date": "1905-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (1989-90), 237-38 (repr.).", "opening_date": "1989-01-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["432.1915"], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "One of the most celebrated academic painters of his time, Bouguereau underscores the moral virtues of the Italian peasants in this painting by depicting the dome of St. Peter's in the distance. The idealized figures and their triangular grouping recall the Holy Family paintings by Renaissance master Raphael 400 years earlier. The painting was purchased directly from the artist by Cleveland banker and philanthropist Hinman B. Hurlbut in July 1879.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117230251", "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36495969"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1915.722-rest"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "\u201cExhibitions.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 3, no. 4 (October 1916): 1\u20133.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136053"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 170", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n194"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.<br>Published as: <em>Mother and Children.</em>", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 212", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n232"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 36 no. 05, May 1996", "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-05/page/n7"}, {"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. <em>Catalogue of Paintings</em>. <em>Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 80-82, Vol. I, no. 31", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Ross, Frederick C., and Kara Lysandra Ross. <em>William Bouguereau: The Essential Works</em>. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: ACC Art Books, 2018.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8, 201; Mentioned: p. 34, 171, 176", "url": null}, {"citation": "Paul, Tanya and Stanton Thomas, eds. <em>Bouguereau &amp; America.</em> Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum; Memphis, TN: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art ; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.", "page_number": "Reproduced p. 2, p. 127, cat. 22; Mentioned: pp.37,43, 126", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Motherhood across Time</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Rikhof, Maaike. 2022. \u201cFortunata, an Italienne c\u00e9l\u00e8bre: Identifying the Model in Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Schwartze\u2019s Young Italian Woman With Puck the Dog\u201d. <em>The Rijksmuseum Bulletin</em> 70 (3):244-57.", "page_number": "p. 252", "url": "https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.12832"}, {"citation": "<em>Dessin Anciens &amp; Du XIXe Si\u00e8cle</em>. 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He lived with his uncle in Mortagne from 1845 until 1846, painted portraits of the local landowners, and saved enough money to move to Paris. In 1846 he entered the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and studied under Fran\u00e7ois-\u00c9douard Picot (1786-1868). After several attempts, he finally won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1850. He lived at the Villa Medici in Rome and studied Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Giotto's Paduan frescos, and those at San Francesco in Assisi. The impact of these works appeared in Bouguereau's oeuvre in the form of classical poses, restraint, and a high degree of finish. After his return to France, Bouguereau exhibited regularly at the Salon, concentrating on classical, genre, and religious themes. In 1858 he was commissioned to decorate his first public building-the Chapel of St. Louis in St. Clotilde Church in Paris. 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