The Goose Girl (painting)
- The Goose Girl (painting)
Infobox Painting|
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title=The Goose Girl
artist=William-Adolphe Bouguereau
year=1891
type=Oil on canvas
height=152
width=74
city=Ithaca
museum=Johnson Museum of Art
The Goose Girl is an 1891 painting by Adolphe William Bouguereau, a French academic painter. The Goose Girl is one of many examples that Bouguereau specialized in paintings of beautiful women, and innocent, barefoot, young peasant girls.
It is part of the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.
References
* [http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/handbook/hb140.html Description from the online handbook at the museum]
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