The Goose Girl is an 1891 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, a French academic painter. The Goose Girl is one of many examples that Bouguereau specialized in paintings of beautiful women and innocent, barefoot, young peasant girls.
| The Goose Girl | |
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| Artist | William-Adolphe Bouguereau |
| Year | 1891 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 152 cm × 74 cm (60 in × 29 in) |
| Location | Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca |
It is part of the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.[1]
Description
editThe life-size character in the foreground (on a frame measuring 152 × 74 cm) is that of a young girl represented full-length, turned to the right, her face oriented towards the viewer, slightly bent and smiling. She wears a blue skirt, a shawl on the shoulders placed on a white shirt with short or rolled up sleeves. Barefoot on a dirt road, she imposes herself on a flock of geese visible on both sides in the background against a background of green foliage, a wand in her hand, thereby indicating her function as a guard.
References
edit- ^ "The Goose Girl". Johnson Museum of Art. Cornell University. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
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