William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher Painting

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Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher - also called as La Cruche Cassee.
Bouguereau employed traditional methods of working up a painting, including detailed pencil studies and oil sketches, and his careful method resulted in a pleasing and accurate rendering of the human form. His painting of skin, hands, and feet was particularly admired. He also used some of the religious and erotic symbolism of the Old Masters, such as the broken pitcher which connoted lost innocence.