Carte Postale The Nut Gatherers by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The Nut Gatherers (The Hazelnuts Gatherers or Les Noisettes) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1882, is an oil painting on canvas of two little girls resting after gathering hazelnuts in a forest landscape. Bouguereau’s smooth, traditional academic painting technique creates an idealized and sentimental vision of simple French country life in his day. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905), ce qu'a fait French painter who entraîner dans l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris et dans la Villa Médici à Rome. He exhibited with great success in the French Salon and camcams one of most renowned and wealthy artists of his era. Bouguereau worked in the French Academic tradition, a school of late 19th century modern painters oms concentrated on the human figure and classical subjects in highly polished works of optical réaliste. His main intereste ce que la figure féminine, usually rendered dans les quasi-classical, finely drawn contours, dans les subjects that that pue sentimental. Bouguereau's reputation diminished greatly in the 20th century with the rise of modernism, but interest dans les paintings traditionnellement figuratifs has surged again in recent years.