Mother with child

ID: #2815 | Realism | People

Date: 1887
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: private collection

The painting depicts a young woman walking down a country lane holding a naked young child in her arms. Both have fair hair and the child is leaning on the woman's shoulder looking towards the viewer. The woman is wearing a simple country dress with a skirt down to her ankles and is barefoot. Greenery and trees can be seen in the background, suggesting an idyllic natural setting.

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Bouguereau painted picture Mother with child in 1887. Prevailing color of this fine art print is brown and its shape is tall. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). French academic painter. In his choice of topics, he was a traditionalist: he painted mythological scenes and modern interpretations of Classicist themes (with an emphasis on painting the female body). Bouguereau admired Raphael, and even gave him one of his paintings. In his time, he was considered one of the finest painters, even abroad. At the end of his career, his paintings began to seem too traditionalist, with techniques embedded in the past. In some encyclopaedias, his name even ceased to appear. To date, however, we can consider some of his works beautiful and inspiring.