A Little Coaxing

A Little Coaxing (French: Câlinerie) is an oil painting by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painted and completed in 1890, and now owned by a private collector.^[2]

It depicts two barefooted sisters, the older girl sitting on a concrete step and the younger sister giving her a kiss on the cheek.

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Paintings	Equality Before Death (1848) Dante and Virgil (1850) Shepherds Find Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes (1850) The Dance (1856) Alone in the World (1867) The Elder Sister (1869) The Knitting Girl (1869) Maternal Admiration (1869) Breton Brother and Sister (1871) Nymphs and Satyr (1873) Flora and Zephyr (1875) Pietà (1876) Rest (1879) The Birth of Venus (1879) Dawn (1881) The Song of the Angels (1881) Evening Mood (1882) The Nut Gatherers (1882) The Young Shepherdess (1885) The Return of Spring (1886) The First Mourning (1888) Whisperings of Love (1889) The Shepherdess (1889) The Bohemian (1890) Cupid and Psyche as Children (1890) Gabrielle Cot (1890) A Little Coaxing (1890) The Goose Girl (1891) Work Interrupted (1891) The Virgin of the Lilies (1899) Queen of the Angels (1900) A Dream of Spring (1901) The Oreads (1902)
Related	Elizabeth Jane Gardner (wife) François-Edouard Picot (tutor) Art Renewal Center
Students	Cecilia Beaux Eanger Irving Couse Elizabeth Bouguereau Ellen Day Hale Anna Klumpke Edward Redfield Henry Ossawa Tanner Paul Chabas Thomas Anshutz Émile Munier
List of works Paintings William-Adolphe Bouguereau Paintings