The Elder Sister

William Bouguereau, 1869, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

‘The Elder Sister’ is a work by William Bouguereau (France, 1825–1905). It is dated 1869. It is part of the collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 130 × 97 cm. The work belongs to the genre idyll. The things depicted include elder sister, younger brother, group of siblings, and barefoot.