Charity 1878

Name: Charity 1878
Brand: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
SKU: charity-1878
Price: 222 USD
Availability: InStock

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Item Number: 30046

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Features “Charity 1878” by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Main Features
Author	William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Color	Black, White, Pink, Yellow, Blue, Grey
Tags	heaven, ascent, ethereal, spiritual, celestial, mythological, divine

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“Bouguereau painted virtue the way Raphael painted the Madonna — as a physical reality, something you could almost touch, surrounded by the warmth of absolute conviction.” — Musée d’Orsay

“His technique was so perfect that critics called it cold — but nothing is cold about Charity. It is warmth itself, made permanent.” — Academic Art and Its Critics, 1985

#1. The Academic Ideal. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) was the supreme academic painter of 19th-century France — the winner of the Prix de Rome, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and the most commercially successful French painter of his era.

#2. Charity as Subject. Charity was a traditional subject in Western art — typically represented as a mother with multiple children at her breast, embodying the virtue of selfless giving. Bouguereau updated the classical formula with his characteristic technical perfection and emotional warmth.

#3. Reviled and Revived. The Impressionists and their successors dismissed Bouguereau as the embodiment of academic conservatism — Degas called him “the biggest obstacle to the progress of art.” A century later, collectors have pushed his prices into the millions, recognising his technical mastery on its own terms.