Detail of The Invisible Man by ParasiteDemon on Worth1000. Click for full image.

This strange portrait was created in 2006 by ParasiteDemon for a Monster ModRen contest on Worth1000. I should have been included here a long time ago but it appeared impossible to find the original Bouguereau painting. As it turns out the source is one of Bouguereau’s most obscure portraits which is not listed on any of the dedicated Bouguereau art sites, and probably part of a private collection.

For this contest digital artists were challenged to submit an entry in which a Hollywood movie monster/alien was depicted as the subject of a work of fine art. ParasiteDemon mixed a portrait of Isaac Adolphe Bouguereau with a scene from the 1933 movie The Invisible Man, based on a science fiction novella by H.G. Wells published in 1897.

Below you can compare the two works. Click the first to visit the gallery here on Bouguereau Remastered. Click the second to view the remastered version on Worth1000. The third image is a scene from the 1933 movie, starring Claude Rains as the The Invisible Man Jack Griffen and Gloria Stuart as his lover Flora Cranley.