Date: c. 1880 Medium: oil on canvas Location: the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Dimensions: 57.8 x 81.6
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Une jeune femme à moitié nue s'assoit les mains tendues devant elle et pousse le garçon ocurdicien. Le garçon représente Amora, le dieu de l'amour, et tient une flèche dans sa main droite, son accessoire typique essayant de percer la jeune femme. Le nom de l'image suggère que la femme essaie de défendre, mais son sourire léger montre que son attitude n'est pas très convaincante. Les visiteurs de l'exposition à Paris dans les années 1870 et 1880 ont adoré les peintures de Bouguereau. L'artiste a dépeint ses idées mythiques dans des paysages idylliques. Pour cette peinture, il lui a coûté l'un de ses modèles préférés.
Bouguereau painted picture Fille défendant Eros in c. 1880. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vif and its shape is portrait. Original size is 57.8 x 81.6. This art piece is located in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). French academic painter. In his choice of topics, he was a traditionalist: he painted mythological scenes and modern interpretations of Classicist themes (with an emphasis on painting the female body). Bouguereau admired Raphael, and even gave him one of his paintings. In his time, he was considered one of the finest painters, even abroad. At the end of his career, his paintings began to seem too traditionalist, with techniques embedded in the past. In some encyclopaedias, his name even ceased to appear. To date, however, we can consider some of his works beautiful and inspiring.
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