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Pure perfection
Interestingly enough, this was a portrait that Bouguereau did of the wife of his former student Cot, one of his most successful students. I would imagine that whenever Cot viewed it he was confronted with the realization that he himself could never reach that level of perfection in his own work. Was this the intention of old Bougie? Who knows
It now hangs in the bedroom of Fred Ross, the founder of the Art Renewal Center. Talking about opening one's eyes to sheer beauty.
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