Première rêverie [SEP] creator
Première rêverie
Première rêverie (English: "First Reverie"), also known in English as Whisperings of Love, is a painting by nineteenth-century French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The work was completed in 1889 and is held at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Background.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) was a French academic artist who began his career at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris with depictions of Classical myths and legends, but soon came into demand in France and the
provenance.
Bouguereau completed "Première rêverie" in early 1889, naming it "Le chant de l'Amour" ("The Song of Love"). In May of that year the work was sold to the art dealership Tooth and Sons and renamed "Première rêverie". That August the dealership sold the painting to a person named Groves. The painting was later gifted to the New Orleans Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. Chapman H. Hyams; the museum's catalogue lists it as "Whisperings of Love". Eyewitness