French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) is widely admired for his delicate figure studies that capture even the most subtle human emotions. Immensely popular in both Europe and America during his lifetime, Bouguereau became one of the most prolific and influential artists of the Nineteenth Century, and is today widely recognized as one of the art world?s great painters. “Bouguereau’s ‘Fancies’: Allegorical and Mythological Works by the French Master,” which is on view January 27-April 19 at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Fla., features 19 mythological and allegorical paintings and drawings spanning the artist’s entire career, in addition to period reproductions of his works in print, porcelain, marble and bronze.
JUNE 11-OCT. 3, 2026 lockwoodmathewsmansion.com lockwood_mathews_mansion CELEBRATING AMERICA'S 250th NEW EXHIBIT ♦ JUNE 11-OCT. 3, 2026 LOCKWOODMATHEWSMANSION.COM Portrait, Courtesy of Norwalk Historical Society
