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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905)
French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle.
The birth of venus (bouguereau)At the age of twelve, Bouguereau went to Mortagne-sur-Gironde to stay with his uncle Eugène, a priest, and developed a love of nature, religion and literature. In 1839, he was sent to study for the priesthood at a Catholic college in Pons.
Here he was taught to draw and paint by Louis Sage, who had studied under Ingres. Bouguereau reluctantly left his studies to return to his family, now residing in Bordeaux. Bouguereau became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts.
To supplement his formal training in drawing, he attended anatomical dissections and studied historical costumes and archeology.
He was admitted to the studio of François-Édouard Picot, where he studied painting in the academic style.
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Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) was an early example of his neo-classical works. The young artist entered the Prix de Rome contest in April 1848. Soon after work beg