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The Bilbao museum acquires a painting by Bouguereau
13/12/23- Acquisition - Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes - A history painter first and foremost, William Bouguereau knew how to "complete a great mythological ceiling and make a whole Olympus stand up in the air - which is not as easy as it seems". But he also knew how to paint on earth simple Breton women kneeling in a church, and "to compose an interesting scene, to group two figures with emotion, and to put under the beauty of the face the beauty of the soul, like a light shining softly through alabaster". Théophile Gautier admired in these terms The Vow at Sainte-Anne d’Auray exhibited at the Salon of 1870, now disappeared.
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