Bacchant

A nude woman lies reclined on a white cloth in a lush woodland setting, her body angled diagonally across the foreground as she interacts with a black and white goat that leaps over her, its horns near her raised hand. The figure is rendered with Bouguereau’s hallmark smooth, luminous skin and precise, idealized anatomy, while the background and animal are detailed with meticulous, almost photographic clarity. The palette combines warm flesh tones with cool greens and earth tones, and the composition uses a strong diagonal to convey movement within an academically polished, mythological genre scene.