William-Adolphe Bouguereau Study Part 4

A master copy of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s painting The Song of Love, 1889.
Some of these clips are not in chronological order but focus on a particular area of the head. This final video is about the hair, hand and drapery. Thanks for watching:)
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Materials:
Acrylic primed linen
Walnut oil
Alkyd medium
Natural and synthetic brushes
Transfer paper
Oil colors (titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, burnt umber, cad red lt, cad yel, ultramarine blue.
Bouguereau’s career was nearly a direct ascent with hardly a setback. To many, he epitomized taste and refinement, and a respect for tradition. To others, he was a competent technician stuck in the past. Degas and his associates used the term "Bouguereauté" in a derogatory manner to describe any artistic style reliant on "slick and artificial surfaces", also known as a licked finish. In an 1872 letter, Degas wrote that he strove to emulate Bouguereau's ordered and productive working style, although with Degas' famous trenchant wit, and the aesthetic tendencies of the Impressionists, it is possible the statement was meant to be ironic. Paul Gauguin loathed him, rating him a round zero in Racontars de Rapin and later describing in Avant et après (Intimate Journals) the single occasion when Bouguereau made him smile on coming across a couple of his paintings in an Arles' brothel, "where they belonged".
[Wikipedia]