FB page posts Bouguereau painting: ravenous men think it's a real woman and make advances to her

Can one be so ravenous as to mistake a woman painted in a Bouguereau painting for a real woman? Evidently so: this week, a U.S. journalist, Kitty Wenham, with a tweet of her own, exhumed an old post on the Facebook page World Paintings, dating back to April 2017 and probably unnoticed by most at the time, as Wenham’s tweet received more than 200 thousand likes, 45 thousand shares, and nearly 3 thousand comments. World Paintings had posted a painting by the French fire painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (La Rochelle, 1825 - 1905), titled Après le bain (“after the bath”), which is held in a private collection (it went to auction in 2014 at Sotheby’s for a remarkable $875,000). The work, also known as La baigneuse (“the bather”) depicts a nude woman drying herself off (in a pose that is also quite uncomfortable) after a swim in the sea, in the French artist’s typical classical and rhetorical style.

The photo can still be traced on Facebook and has come back to the attention of all art lovers (and not only them) after Kitty Wenham’s tweet because of the myriad of ravenous men who thought Bouguereau’s bather was a real woman, and therefore thought it best to propose advances... to the painting. “Hello sexy dear friend, how are you?”, “Hello baby, your breasts are so beautiful, but lower your dress a little more,” “Hello beautiful, I like your picture, you look very pretty”: these are just a few among the hundreds of appreciative comments (and there is no shortage of those who leave their phone number, those who ask to send photos via private message, even those who offer themselves for an invitation).

Then there is also no shortage of hundreds of ironic comments (and there are also those who complain that the ironic comments overwhelm those of the real allupati), those who worry about the level to which one can stoop when desperately searching for a woman, and even discussions about the ethnic origin of most of the hungry commenters or the possibility that behind several accounts may lurk some scammers animated by intentions that are anything but positive. And then there are also those who take the opportunity to comment on Bouguerau’s skill, according to some even capable of painting women so truthful that they confuse 21st century Internet users. Indeed, the painting has received 15 thousand comments: natural, then, that one can find anything and everything in it.

FB page posts Bouguereau painting: ravenous men think it's a real woman and make advances to her

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