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accession number: 1915.722
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Rest, 1879. William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905). Oil on fabric; framed: 204 x 156 x 15 cm (80 5/16 x 61 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.); unframed: 164.5 x 117.8 cm (64 3/4 x 46 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.722
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creation date: 1879
creation date earliest: 1879
creation date latest: 1879
current location: 219 19th Century European
creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: oil on fabric
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905) - artist
William Adolphe Bouguereau started drawing at an early age but did not take lessons until 1834, his first year in college in Pons, where his instructor was Louis Sage, who had been a pupil of Ingres (q.v.). In 1841 Bouguereau's father, a wine merchant, moved the family to Bordeaux. The following year he was allowed to attend the École Municipale de Dessin et de Peinture, where he studied under Jean-Paul Alaux. Bouguereau became a bookkeeper for another wine merchant in order to meet the cost of the school. By 1844 he had won the first prize for figure painting, which further encouraged him to pursue his art career. 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 École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard 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. Other public commissions followed, including the chapels of St. Pierre-Paul and St. Jean-Baptiste at St. Augustin Church in Paris, the cupola decorations in the cathedral in La Rochelle, and the ceiling of the Grand Theater of Bordeaux. Bouguereau remained in France during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), fighting in the National Guard. Afterward he taught at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1876 he fulfilled a lifelong goal, being elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France. He received the Legion of Honor in 1878 and was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1888. Bouguereau's support of the academy and his interest in classicism caused a fall in his popularity at the end of his life. Nevertheless, he died a successful, wealthy artist.
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measurements: Framed: 204 x 156 x 15 cm (80 5/16 x 61 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.); Unframed: 164.5 x 117.8 cm (64 3/4 x 46 3/8 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower left: W. Bouguereau 1879
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
opening date: 1974-12-13T05:00:00
William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (organizer) (December 13, 1974-January 26, 1975).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
title: Bouguereau & America
opening date: 2019-02-14T05:00:00
Bouguereau & America. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (February 14-May 12, 2019); Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (organizer) (June 22-September 22, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'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, Musée 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'}
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 170
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n194
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
Published as: Mother and Children.
page number: Reproduced: p. 212
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n232
Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 05, May 1996
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-05/page/n7
Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 80-82, Vol. I, no. 31
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Ross, Frederick C., and Kara Lysandra Ross. William Bouguereau: The Essential Works. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: ACC Art Books, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 8, 201; Mentioned: p. 34, 171, 176
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Paul, Tanya and Stanton Thomas, eds. Bouguereau & America. 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
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Rikhof, Maaike. 2022. “Fortunata, an Italienne célèbre: Identifying the Model in Thérèse Schwartze’s Young Italian Woman With Puck the Dog”. The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 70 (3):244-57.
page number: p. 252
url: https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.12832
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IMAGES
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print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.722/1915.722_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.722/1915.722_full.tif