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Bouguereau

[ booguh-roh ]

noun

  1. A·dolphe Wil·liam [a, -, dawlf, veel-, yam], 1825–1905, French painter.


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He always asked me to find him a William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting of angels and saints.

It was a great, warm tinted nude by Bouguereau, a French artist who was startling his day with his daring portrayal of the nude.

And with less discrimination, and more from a sensual point of view the nudes of Cabanel, Bouguereau and Gerome.

"You may smoke," said the Bouguereau child who was grown into womanhood.

Alicia rose and, crossing the room, carelessly inspected one of the pictures on the wall, a study of the nude by Bouguereau.

M. Cabanel and M. Bouguereau fill whole rooms with their pale compositions, and—Millet is absent!

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