Bouguereau
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It was bought by 19th-century French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau and passed down through his family, according to the auction house.
From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025
When honing his craft at Santa Monica College and the ArtCenter, he developed a deeper appreciation for the grandeur of artists like William-Adolphe Bouguereau and John Singer Sargent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
The shade, somewhere between a Bouguereau mauve and Andy Warhol’s “Lavender Disaster,” incorporates the values of a lurid sunset, a screen’s glow, and a fashionable young millennial’s idea of neon delirium.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019
Among displays in Traverse City are “The Nut Gatherers” by William Bouguereau and “Reeds and Cranes,” a landscape by Japanese artist Suzuki Kiitsu.
From Washington Times • May 15, 2016
The pictures which G�r�me, Cabanel, Bouguereau, and the acolytes of those pastry-cooks exposed were stupid and sterile as church doors.
From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Saltus, Edgar
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