{"id":46399,"date":"2018-07-25T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46399"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:13:04","slug":"les-quatre-saisons-x-william-bouguereau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/46399","title":{"rendered":"Les Quatre Saisons x William Bouguereau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Les Quatre Saisons x William Bouguereau\" width=\"859\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo1_1280.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo1_1280-470x722.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo1_1280-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo1_1280-600x922.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau\">William Bouguereau<\/a>: Les Quatre Saisons: Le Printemps, L&#8217;\u00c9t\u00e9, L&#8217;Automne, L&#8217;Hiver.<\/p>\n<p>Monlun Family Collection, Angoulins, France (commissioned directly from the artist, 1854)<\/p>\n<p>Les quatre saisons are Bouguereau\u2019s earliest recorded gold ground decorations. Typically reserved for sacred subjects and devotional pieces, Bouguereau was conscious of the warm glittering effect that gold leaf would have amidst residential gas lighting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo2_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Les Quatre Saisons x William Bouguereau\" width=\"836\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo2_1280.jpg 836w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo2_1280-470x742.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo2_1280-768x1212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo2_1280-600x947.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo3_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Les Quatre Saisons x William Bouguereau\" width=\"846\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo3_1280.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo3_1280-470x733.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo3_1280-768x1197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo3_1280-600x935.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo4_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Les Quatre Saisons x William Bouguereau\" width=\"903\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo4_1280.jpg 903w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo4_1280-470x687.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo4_1280-768x1122.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tumblr_p8ltc1iL4H1sh8e5qo4_1280-600x876.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pittykitty.tumblr.com\/post\/176251669339\/william-bouguereau-les-quatre-saisons-le\">Pitty Kitty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Bouguereau: Les Quatre Saisons: Le Printemps, L&#8217;\u00c9t\u00e9, L&#8217;Automne, L&#8217;Hiver. Monlun Family Collection, Angoulins, France (commissioned directly from the artist, 1854) Les quatre saisons are Bouguereau\u2019s earliest recorded gold ground decorations. Typically reserved for sacred subjects and devotional pieces, Bouguereau was conscious of the warm glittering effect that gold leaf would have amidst residential gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46412,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399\/revisions\/46412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}