L'Ete (Summer) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau on Canvas

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The change of seasons as an allegorical representation for the ages of life, is represented by alluring youth and femininity crowned with a garland and bearing the ripe fruits of life. With a hint of awaking while in the summer of her life, she is painted soft pastel shades, romantically and idealistically. French artist Bouguereau was considered an Academic and traditionalist with modern interpretations of classical and mythological subjects. As a teacher, frescoesist and draftsman Bouguereau opened art to women and held coed classes. Popular with Victorian patrons in France and the United States, few could match Bouguereau's realistic figures touched with idealism. The authentic stretched…