William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's paintings center on religious, mythological, and rural figures, rendered with careful drawing and smoothly blended tones. His studies in Rome included ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque art. The Young Shepherdess (1885) sets an idealized rural girl within a broad landscape. A Young Girl Defending Herself against Love depicts an encounter with Eros; the smaller Getty version repeats a composition made for the Paris Salon of 1880.