Elizabeth Jane (Gardner) Bouguereau ART FOR SALE
1837 Exeter, New Hampshire - 1922 St. Cloud, France. Known for: Allegorical figure, genre and animal painting.
One of the first American women artists to break the female barrier at the Academie Julian* in Paris, Elizabeth Bouguereau is credited with opening the French ateliers to females. She was also the... Read full biography
One of the first American women artists to break the female barrier at the Academie Julian* in Paris, Elizabeth Bouguereau is credited with opening the French ateliers to females. She was also the first American woman to exhibit and also to win a medal at the Paris Salon*. Ironically she spent most... Read full biography
One of the first American women artists to break the female barrier at the Academie Julian* in Paris, Elizabeth Bouguereau is credited with opening the French ateliers to females. She was also the first American woman to exhibit and also to win a medal at the Paris Salon*. Ironically she spent most of her career painting in the style of her husband and mentor, French academician William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). She also stopped painting during her married years, 1896 to 1905, but after... Read full biography
One of the first American women artists to break the female barrier at the Academie Julian* in Paris, Elizabeth Bouguereau is credited with opening the French ateliers to females. She was also the first American woman to exhibit and also to win a medal at the Paris Salon*. Ironically she spent most of her career painting in the style of her husband and mentor, French academician William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). She also stopped painting during her married years, 1896 to 1905, but after that produced at least four major paintings a year until she was disabled by rheumatism. Elizabeth Bouguereau was noted for her idealized, allegorical figure and genre subjects in a smoothly modeled style that reminded some viewers of painting on... Read full biography
One of the first American women artists to break the female barrier at the Academie Julian* in Paris, Elizabeth Bouguereau is credited with opening the French ateliers to females. She was also the first American woman to exhibit and also to win a medal at the Paris Salon*. Ironically she spent most of her career painting in the style of her husband and mentor, French academician William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). She also stopped painting during her married years, 1896 to 1905, but after that produced at least four major paintings a year until she was disabled by rheumatism. Elizabeth Bouguereau was noted for her idealized, allegorical figure and genre subjects in a smoothly modeled style that reminded some viewers of painting on china. Her themes were that of nobility, sweetness, and sentimentality. She was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and gr... Read full biography
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