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The Pearl and the Wave (French: La Perle et la vague), [1] also known as The Wave and the Pearl, is a painting by the French artist Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry created in 1862. [2] The painting shows a nude woman lying on the edge of a rocky sea shore, with her head turned to gaze backward over her shoulder towards the viewer.
Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being The Pearl and the Wave (1862). Once only did he attempt an historical picture, Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat (1861); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of ...
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Original – Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry's The Pearl and the Wave, described by Kenyon Cox as "the most perfect painting of the nude". Oil on canvas, measures 83.5 by 178 centimetres (32.9 × 70 in) Reason High quality scan of a notable artwork; I also think we should have more nudes Articles in which this image appears The Pearl and the Wave,
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry's The Wave and the Pearl, 1862. Velázquez's portrait is a staging of a private moment of intimacy and a dramatic departure from the classical depictions of sleep and intimacy found in works from antiquity and Venetian art that portray Venus.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. [1]
Paul Baudry won the main Prix de Rome for 1850, but Bouguereau won a consolation second prize, which he used to pay for a stay at the Villa Medici. [2] References
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