{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"La Tribune de l&#8217;Art","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com","title":"The Bilbao museum acquires a painting by Bouguereau","author_name":"B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Bonnet Saint-Georges","width":"800","height":"600","url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/article11222","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/article11222'\u003EThe Bilbao museum acquires a painting by Bouguereau\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA 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\". Th\u00e9ophile Gautier admired in th\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}