Les Oreades by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Greeting Card with Elegant Striped Gold Foil Envelope, 1 Card/Envelope
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Les Oreades by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Greeting Card with Elegant Striped Gold Foil Envelope, 1 Card/Envelope

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Les Oreades by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Greeting Card with Elegant Striped Gold Foil Envelope, 1 Card/Envelope Send your best wishes, thoughts, and love with this elegant greeting card featuring one of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's most memorable paintings. The Oreads is a mythological painting and it is one of Bouguereau's best-known works. The painting includes many nude females, a characteristic seen in many of Bouguereau's artworks. It is painted in a Neoclassical style which features mythological Roman and Greek nymphs and satyrs. Oreads are lively creatures who hunt wild animals such as boar and birds with their arrows. Under Diana's guidance, the Oreads line themselves behind her in a luminous form. The painting shows the Oreads ascending into the sky while three satyrs watch them, seemingly mystified at the sight. A commentary for the title of the painting quotes: The shadows are dissipating; dawn appears, radiant, and colours the mountain tops pink. Then a long procession

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