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
He had the face of a Bouguereau cherub, and mild blue eyes such as we are told inhabit the countenances of angels.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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