The Goose Girl (Bouguereau)

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.

The Goose Girl
Artist	William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Year	1891
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	152 cm × 74 cm (60 in × 29 in)
Location	Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca

It is part of the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.^[1]

Description

The life-size character in the foreground (on a frame measuring 152 × 74 cm) is that of a young girl represented full-length, turned to the right, her face oriented towards the viewer, slightly bent and smiling. She wears a blue skirt, a shawl on the shoulders placed on a white shirt with short or rolled up sleeves. Barefoot on a dirt road, she imposes herself on a flock of geese visible on both sides in the background against a background of green foliage, a wand in her hand, thereby indicating her function as a guard.