Exhibition: Bouguereau & America
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presents a new traveling exhibition exploring the enormous popularity of French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) in the United States during the “Gilded Age.”
Image: Nymphs and Satyr, 1873. Oil on canvas. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA 1955.658. Photograph: Bridgeman Images.
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