The Goose Girl (Bouguereau)

The Goose Girl

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

The Goose Girl is an 1891 painting by Adolphe William 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.

It is part of the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

References

Description from the online handbook at the museum

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Dante and Virgil (1850)
La Danse (1856)
Alone in the World (1867)
The Elder Sister (1869)
The Knitting Girl (1869)
Nymphs and Satyr (1873)
The Birth of Venus (1879)
Evening Mood (1882)
The Nut Gatherers (1882)
The Young Shepherdess (1885)
The Return of Spring (1886)
The First Mourning (1888)
Première rêverie (1889)
The Shepherdess (1889)
The Bohemian (1890)
L'Amour et Psyché, enfants (1890)
Gabrielle Cot (1890)
The Goose Girl (1891)
Le Travail interrompu (1891)
Rêve de printemps (1901)

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