c.1895, The Song of the Nightingale, Dayton Art Institute
Photography probably killed the desire for representational art. Anyone could get a photographic portrait, so they didn't need to pay for a painted portrait. Bouguereau and Sargent were probably the last of the great realist artists.
I actually don’t know any of the women and children except from research. I was raised on Academy nudes, and THOSE I know well. But given this site, I’m not posting those pieces. These following links are to the pieces that I can’t remember a day of my life NOT knowing.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Bouguereau-Evening_Mood_1882.jpg
And the image I put up of Calypso, also from my childhood, seems to be the only image of that particular piece by him that’s on the web.
http://www.iment.com/maida/family/mother/vicars/p046.htm
