Peace

Artist: Adolphe-William Bouguereau, French, 1825–1905
Date: 1860
Material: Oil on canvas
(not assigned): Europe
Classification: Paintings
Collection: Modern and Contemporary Art
Current Location: On View, Gallery 207
Dimensions: 33 1/2 x 42 1/4 in. (85.1 x 107.3 cm)
framed: 51 x 59 1/2 in. (129.5 x 151.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Lillie B. Randell
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 304:1925

NOTES

Two children embrace each other within a pastoral setting in this idyllic view. Adolphe-William Bouguereau, the prominent academic painter, showed "Peace" at the 1861 Salon, the official state-sponsored art exhibition, to critical acclaim. The artist produced a companion work, "War" (JAPS Collection, Mexico), in which the same two children are fighting. "Peace" had previously been identified as a copy after Bouguereau, but recent technical and provenance research has proven this to be an autograph painting.

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