ANTIQUE ROYAL VIENNA HAND PAINTED CHARGER 

Late 19th Century, underglaze blue beehive mark and impressed numbers

A finely decorated porcelain charger hand painted with a scene of cupids, titled Amor's Ruhe after Bouguereau.

Signed at the lower right, within a gold encrusted border .

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (French, 1825-1905) - one of the best academic painter, exhibited in the annual Paris Salons 
for more than 50 years. His paintings of religious, mythological, and genre subjects were carefully composed and painstakingly 
finished. Thus he opposed the admission of works by the impressionists to the Salon, because he believed that their paintings 
were no more than unfinished sketches. After a period of neglect following his death, Bouguereau's paintings were returned to 
view as part of a renewed interest in and reappraisal of academic painting and of Ecole des Beaux-Arts works in general. His 
painting were widely reproduced on porcelain plaques. 

Diameter:  14" diameter

Condition Report: Excellent, minor scratches to the right, not affecting scene.