La Paresseuse

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The woman is sitting in a chair with her arms resting on the armrests, which creates a feeling of relaxation and comfort. In 1875, with assistants, he began work on a La Rochelle chapel ceiling, producing six paintings on copper over the next six years.

He was also a successful portrait painter and many of his paintings of wealthy patrons remain in private hands. Bouguereau received many commissions to decorate private houses and public buildings, and, early on, this added to his prestige and fame. Every painting is infused with a unique personality and an unrivaled value, showcasing art in its rawest and most authentic form just for you. Discover the allure of art with our faithful reproduction of "La Paresseuse", originally brought to life by the talented Maurice Barraud. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Cawood had an active interest in European art and architecture, and over ten years designed and developed his East Liverpool, Ohio home into a unique and distinct interpretation of Italian Renaissance Revival style, with Spanish eclectic additions including a large round tower, porte cochere, and a chapel (the impressive home was added to the National Register of Historic places in 1988; Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places, vol.

Once installed in the city in summer 1875 he began Pietà, one of his greatest religious paintings and shown at the 1876 Salon, in tribute to his son Georges. In 1882, he decided that rather than rent he would purchase a house, as well as local farm buildings. Collectors such as Catholina Lambert, the silk manufacturer from New Jersey, owned Bouguereau’s The Little Pilferers, and hung it among his extensive collection of Impressionist paintings (Eric M.The painting Indolence, also known as La Paresseuse Italienne, is a masterpiece by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze. apparences de la femme du peuple inculte et à l'aspect négligé, qui feint de passer ses journées devant la télévision toujours allumée, da n s la paresseuse c o mpagnie de son chat, se cache une autodidacte de vaste culture, pleine d'une curiosité intellectuelle raffinée. Although he had a strong admiration for all traditional art, he particularly revered Greek sculpture, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Rubens and Delacroix. Three paintings were shown at the 1863 Salon and Holy Family (Now at Chimei Museum) was sold to Napoleon III, who presented it to his wife the Empress Eugénie, who hung it in her Tuileries apartment.

As with so many of Bouguereau’s paintings, particularly those of children, La paresseuse was sold soon after its completion in 1901 to an American collector and has remained in the United States ever since. By this time, Bouguereau was turning away from history painting and lengthy commissions to work on more personal paintings, with realistic and rustic themes. His son Paul contracted tuberculosis in early 1899; Paul, his stepmother, and Bouguereau went to Menton in the south. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist whose genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects, both pagan and Christian, with a concentration on the naked female form.Academic painting placed the highest status on historical and mythological subjects, and Bouguereau determined to win the Prix de Rome, which would gain him a three-year residence at the Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, where in addition to formal lessons he could study at first hand the Renaissance artists and their masterpieces, as well as Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities.