Sujet

The Little Tramps - by M. Bouguereau, in the Paris Salon, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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The Little Tramps - by M. Bouguereau, in the Paris Salon, 1890. Engraving of a painting. 'M. William Bouguereau belongs to the group of French artists who have remained firm in their allegiance to the "Old Salon," where this work appears...He showed no special aptitude for painting in early life, and was placed by his family in a house of business at Bordeaux. While here he was accustomed to attend, for a couple of hours each day, the drawing school of M. Alaux, and at the end of a year he carried off the prize for which the regular students had competed in vain...one day W. Bouguereau turned his back upon Bordeaux and its houses, and...painted the portraits of the rustic population to such good effect that he was able to start for Paris with 900f. in his pocket...His works are always distinguished by their finished design and the accuracy of the drawing, and in his rendering of the pearl-like transparency of flesh he has few equals. It is objected to Bouguereau that his peasants are wanting in rusticity, and that their delicate faces and shoulders show no trace of weather or labour - but it is as a classicist, not as a realist, that he has won his reputation - and few French artists can rival the exquisite completeness of his work'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A57_308

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

38,4Mo (5,8Mo) / 24,4cm x 39,4cm / 2883 x 4655 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female people child children girl girls arts painting class country French France body bodies art costume clothes British feet foot dress traditional costume poor poverty location Victorian century Britain newspapers press picture barefoot clothing print begging concept pictures APPAREL B&W beggar beggars sentimental bare feet tramps tramp engraved vagrant vagrants engraving Vagabond Working Class 19th century vagrancy black & white black and white B W working-class nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News social class the body traditional dress wood engraving ILN William-Adolphe Bouguereau newspaper portrait Unknown tradition dress 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News vagabonds Bouguereau William-Adolphe William Bouguereau William Adolphe Bouguereau Bouguereau William