Posted in Musings

I spent a good portion of today catching up on blogs I haven't visited for a while. During my blog visits I was introduced to a French painter named Adolphe William Bougeureau. I really liked the paintings I saw and decided to download a few of my own. I ended up downloading quite a few and have no idea what I am going to do with them. However, as I was going through them I noticed that many of the faces were similar. As I put together those that looked similar I decided that they had to be the same model. They just look too much alike!

Bougeureau was known for his realism and it shows in the fact that you can recognize the same people in different paintings. He painted mostly in the second half of the nineteenth century and his subjects were mostly peasants (and some religious and mythical figures). He gives you a realistic, yet beautiful, idea of the people that lived in France during this time. I've posted a few paintings that I particularly liked of two models that seemed to crop up more often in those I downloaded. Enjoy!




PS- Aunt Libby, one of his series of shepherdesses that I downloaded is in the Philbrook Museum there in Tulsa. According to their web page it is the most popular of their collection! We'll have to go next time we are in Tulsa.