Bouguereau’s life-sized oil paintings of mythological narratives were highly detailed. With polished brushstrokes and nuanced tonal shifts, both his technique and subject matter were antithetical to ...

who took the art world by storm in Paris in 1874. Left: Hunter Biden masterpiece; right: Bouguereau self portrait. (Getty Images) Their work implicitly mocked Bouguereau’s lovingly sentimental ...