The Goose Girl is an 1891 painting by William-Adolphe 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. [1]

The painting depicts a young barefoot peasant woman lying in the middle of a pasture and lifting her right hand in which she holds threads of gossamer. She wears a white skirt and shirt. A yellow headscarf lying under her head serves as a contrast and …

Jul 23, 2011 · The young woman shook hands with both of us—a ceremony never omitted by these mountain peasants, when a stranger or an acquaintance enter their house.

Feb 24, 2021 · 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.

In the centre three young women, modelled by Courbet's three sisters Zoé, Zélie and Juliette, offer a barefoot peasant girl something to eat. One of the three holds an umbrella against the sun. A dog stands behind the trio, whilst to the right two cows graze in a hilly landscape with rocky outcrops and a sunny blue sky.

Feb 25, 2023 · The painting depicts a barefoot young woman in peasant clothing, turned away from but still facing the viewer. She holds a plant in her hands. See also The Shepherdess, a similar painting by the same artist.

Sep 14, 2009 · The daily life of a peasant girl in Ireland is elevated by this simple, yet powerful image. A Connemara Girl is one of the most recognized young, barefoot goat-herders in art history. She stands strong with her bundle of sticks high above the sea with her charges and companions, the goats, by her side.

In the Ashmolean drawing, the subject is barefoot and her skirt is far too long for any practical use; her costume does not reflect what actual 19 th century peasants would have worn—instead this shows Bouguereau’s interest in classical works—the …

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In The Cottage Madonna, he rendered a barefoot peasant woman feeding her child in a modest Dutch interior, equipped with a fireplace and a foot warmer. A chaplet cross hung against the plain mantel cloth alludes to a Christian image of Mary as a nurturing mother and symbolizes piety.