Le Travail interrompu (English: Work Interrupted) is a painting by nineteenth-century French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1891. The painting is currently held in the Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts.[1]

Le Travail interrompu
Le Travail interrompu (1891)
ArtistWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau
Year1891 (1891)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions160 cm × 99.7 cm (63 in × 39.3 in)
LocationMead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

The painting shows a woman seated beside an urn filled with balls of wool; Cupid is leaning across her shoulders applying perfume to her ear. The delicate luminous colours combined with the barely visible brush strokes are typical of the artist's work.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Collections Database". Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
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