Regina Angelorum
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Regina Angelorum: Queen of the Angels. All twenty-one angels around the throne are the same girl, painted again and again.
Two kneel with censers; others have hands joined or laid at the breast. In the Apocalypse an angel offers incense with the prayers of the saints before the throne of God. The throne here is Byzantine, coloured stone after the mosaics of Ravenna, and the Petit Palais ties the picture back to Cimabue and Duccio.
Kara Lysandra Ross describes Bouguereau's usual method: hands from one model, eyes from another, hair from a third. Here he ran it backwards.
Sources: Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 'La Vierge aux anges' (Regina Angelorum), PPP3766. · Artchive and Master Apollon, corroborating readings of the censer angels · Kara Lysandra Ross, 'William Bouguereau and his Religious Works', Art Renewal Center. · Apocalypse 8:3-4, Douay-Rheims.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 5,127 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.