Italy - Firenze

North Italy by car - 20 to 28 May 2012

William Bouguereau (1825-1905)

L'Amour et Psyche, enfants [Cupid and Psyche as Children]

Oil on canvas, 1889.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.