Bouguereau, convencido de haber alcanzado el "ideal de belleza", contribuye a crear el paradigma del desnudo. La "toilette" de Venus evoca la imagen mítica de la diosa romana de la Belleza y el Amor. El cuerpo idealizado se impone a la mirada del espectador. La luz, que emerge de una fuente externa a la obra, no ilumina de manera homogénea la escena sino genera oposiciones de luces y sombras que exaltan las cualidades táctiles de los volúmenes. La línea del dibujo, fluida y continua, determina con precisión los contornos de las formas.

Bouguereau se especializaría en la ejecución de desnudos inspirados en el mundo renacentista, de gran aceptación en la corte de Napoleón III y Eugenia de Montijo. Los retratos y las escenas religiosas completan su producción, realizada en una técnica casi fotográfica, siguiendo la estela de David e Ingres.

 

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Temptation
Oil on canvas, 1880
Public collection
 

 

 

 

 

 

Le Repos [Rest]
Oil on canvas, 1879
64 1/2 x 42 1/8 inches (164 x 107 cm)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

 

 

 

 

Alma Parens [L'âme parentale (The Motherland)]
Oil on canvas, 1883
90 1/2 x 55 inches (230 x 140 cm)
Private collection
 

 

 

 

Naissance de Venus [Birth of Venus]
Oil on canvas, 1879
118 x 85 3/4 inches (300 x 218 cm)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
 

 

 

Calinerie [A Little Coaxing]
Oil on canvas, 1890
57 x 35 3/4 inches (145 x 91 cm)

 

 

 

L'art et la Litterature [Art and Literature]
Oil on canvas, 1867
78 5/8 x 42 1/2 inches (200 x 108 cm)
Arnot Art Museum Elmira, New York City

 

 



La Nymphée [The Nymphaeum]
Oil on canvas, 1878
57 x 82 3/8 inches (144.8 x 209.5 cm)
 

 

 


 

La Jeunesse de Bacchus [The Youth of Bacchus]
Oil on canvas, 1884
130 1/4 x 240 1/8 inches (331 x 610 cm)
 

 

 

 

La Jeunesse de Bacchus [The Youth of Bacchus]
Oil on canvas, 1884
130 1/4 x 240 1/8 inches (331 x 610 cm)

 

 

 

Le Captif [The Prisoner]
Oil on canvas, 1891
51 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches (131 x 77.5 cm)
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
 

 

 



 

L'innocence [Innocence]
Oil on canvas, 1893
39 1/4 x 20 5/8 inches (100 x 52.5 cm)
Private collection

 

 

 



Moissonneuse [The Harvester]
Oil on canvas, 1868
41 7/8 x 33 3/8 inches (106.5 x 85 cm)
Private collection

 

 

 

Flore et Zephyre [Flora and Zephyr]
Oil on canvas, 1875
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse

 

 

 

 

 

Lady Maxwell
Oil on canvas, 1890
50 3/4 x 35 inches (129.2 x 89.2 cm)

 

 

 

 

Promenade à âne [Donkey Ride]
Oil on canvas, 1878
95 x 42 1/8 inches (241.3 x 107.2 cm)
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville

 

 

 

Le crabe [The Crab]
Oil on canvas, 1869
31 7/8 x 25 3/4 inches (81 x 65.5 cm)
Private collection
 

 

 

 

Jeunes Bohemiennes [Young Gypsies]
Oil on canvas, 1879
65 1/4 x 38 7/8 inches (166 x 99 cm)
Collection of Fred and Sherry Ross
 

 

 

 

La Vierge aux Anges [The Virgin with Angels]
Oil on canvas, 1881
84 x 60 inches (213.4 x 152.4 cm)
Museum at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale
 

 

 

 

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