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The Goose Girl is an 1891 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, a French academic painter. The Goose Girl is one of many examples that Bouguereau specialized in paintings of beautiful women and innocent, barefoot, young peasant girls. It is part of the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. [1]
In such works the artist depicted a variety of poses and expressions, in this case showing the mild curiosity of the girl. [2] In portraying a shepherdess Bouguereau is working within the pastoral mode or theme, as developed by ancient Greek and Hellenistic artists and poets.
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]
The Goose Girl (Bouguereau) K. The Knitting Girl; L. A Little Coaxing; M. Maternal Admiration; N. The Nut Gatherers; P. Pietà (Bouguereau) R. Regina Angelorum ...
William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The Goose Girl; Work Interrupted; Frank Bramley – For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven; Edward Burne-Jones – Sponsa de Libano; Philip Hermogenes Calderon – St. Elizabeth of Hungary
The Goose Girl (Bouguereau) I. Ia Orana Maria; L. La respuesta (painting) M. The Man of Sorrows (Ensor) A Man with an Axe; Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium; Melancholy ...
Goose chick drops several metres to rejoin parents. A curious little girl in Texas went to see some baby goslings in her neighborhood, but apparently got a little too close for their mother's ...
The Shepherdess (French: Pastourelle), also known as The Little Shepherdess, is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889. The title is taken from the Southern French dialect . The painting depicts an idyllic , pastoral scene of a lone young woman in peasant attire posed for the artist, balancing a stick (likely her crook ...