Mère et l'enfant apres W. Bouguereau (English name: "Mother and Child after W. Bouguereau") is an oil painting on canvas by Henry Salem Hubbell, completed in 1898, and is his earliest known work.Charles H. Caffin, "Some New American Painters in Paris," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (January, 1909) p. 118 Hubbell had moved to Paris, France to study painting at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and Jean-Paul Laurens. He painted and exhibited Mother and Child before leaving to study with James Abbott McNeill Whistler at the Académie Carmen, and it is painted in the style of Bouguereau,McKissick Museum Staff. “The Paintings of Henry Salem Hubbell: An Elegance Rediscovered,” Under the Dome, (Charleston: University of South Carolina, July, 1998)Hindman, Leslie. American and European Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, (Chicago, LH 2011) p. 126 featuring smooth, barely visible brushstrokes and lifelike imagery."Guide to the Henry Salem Hubbell papers, 1800-1975". rmc.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-28. It also features a female subject, head to toe, dressed in flowing clothes, which would become a staple of his style in the years to come.William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism, (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984)
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