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Are you the official spokesperson for Degas and Monet? Perhaps the term 'Bouguereaute' referred to the vast number of painters who were desperately trying to emulate Bouguereau's success by copying the superficial aspects of his work.
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I thought it was you the offical spokesman Marvin since you very confidently asserted that those two impressionists believed B was the greatest painter of the 19th C. Everything we know about the bios of Degas, Monet and Impressionism and their relationship with the academy supports my claim that the quote was meant to be ironic and nothing as far as I am aware supports Art Renewal's interpretation. Dishonest quote mining.
I am sure that they did not only have B in mind but other certainly less endowed academic painters but if in their own minds B was excluded from this 'lesser' group they would not have coined the term Bouguereaute using his name, would they?
We will certainly have to disagree on B and on the Impressionists its seems and that is fine and natural but I don't see many Satyrs or Angels in your work Marvin or are these on a different website? I see very well-painted portraits that are rather too tightly rendered for my taste and I see nothing shameful in borrowing from B for these - we all cherry pick.