William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Self-Portrait_Presented_To_M._Sage_(1886)William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)


Bougureau is renowned for his classical themed academy art paintings. He devoted painstaken attention to details and mastered the human body in his many mythological and biblical nudes. He said once “There’s only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection”