The Elder Sister, reduction (La soeur a\u00een\u00e9e, r\u

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An academic painter who had achieved great success in the Paris Salon with mythological, historical, and religious subjects, Bouguereau later turned to genre scenes such as this image of a young woman caring for her younger brother. Although the figures are defined as siblings in the title, Bouguereau evokes the Madonna and Child with a tender pose\u2014much like that seen in the altarpieces on the opposite wall\u2014and the Catholic rosary beads in the child\u2019s hand. Moreover, scholars have linked Bouguereau\u2019s composition and the dark, dreamy look of the girl to the Sistine Madonna by Raphael. Bouguereau\u2019s works appealed to a middle-class clientele\u2014both French and American\u2014that cherished Christian and domestic values. This \u201creduction\u201d is one of at least two known versions that Bouguereau painted after a larger subject displayed in the Salon of 1867.

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