BOUGUEREAU, ADOLPHE WILLIAM French painter, was born at La Rochelle on Nov. 3o 1825, and died there on Aug. 18 1905. From 1843 till 1850 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in 1850 divided the Grand Prix de Rome scholarship with Baudry, the subject set being "Zenobia on the banks of the Araxes." On his return from Rome in 1855 he was employed in decorating several great houses, deriving inspiration from the frescoes which he had seen at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and which had already suggested his "Idyll" (1853). "The Mar tyr's Triumph," the body of St. Cecilia borne to the catacombs, was placed in the Luxembourg. Most of his works, especially "The Triumph of Venus" (1856) and "Charity," are popularly known through engravings.