Lost to scholars for the past 90 years, “The Cherry Picker” recently resurfaced in the hands of Baltimore native Dorothy Bair. “The reappearance of this major canvas by 19th-century French academic ...

Bouguereau & America showcases more than forty masterful paintings by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). The exhibition explores the artist’s remarkable popularity ...

Art often challenges viewers by confronting us with what’s next. What’s new. As you’ll find now at The San Diego Museum of Art, it can also challenge viewers by confronting us with what’s come before ...

William 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. With ...

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art this week opens an exhibition devoted to a man once cherished and later scorned as "the most popular painter in the United States." The paintings range from ...

The academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a model of success in 19th-century French culture. Like many artists of the era who were not avant-garde, Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist, a ...

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter, best known for his realist depictions of the human figure set within Neoclassical and rustic settings. Born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825 ...

French Academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s monumental painting, La Jeunesse de Bacchus, will hit the auction block for the first time since it was completed in 1884, estimated to sell for ...

The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots Sotheby’s Master Week series in New York 18 - 30 January is set to be among the ...