English: "The Cherry Picker" was painted at the height of the artist's early maturity. The painting, which was a gift of two local Baltimore residents, filled a gap in the Walters' collection of French academic painting.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wijam.adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.
William Bouguereau, est un peintre français représentatif de la peinture académique, né le 30 novembre 1825 à La Rochelle où il est mort le 19 août 1905.