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Equality Before Death is an 1848 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts an angel of death covering the body of a young man with a shroud. [ 1 ] It is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .
Égalité devant la mort (Equality Before Death), 1848, oil on canvas, 141 × 269 cm (55.5 × 105.9 in), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Equality is Bouguereau's first major painting, produced after two years at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris at the age of 23. [7] Bouguereau became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts. [4]
The Virgin of the Lilies (French: La Vierge au lys), also known as The Madonna of the Lilies, is an 1899 oil painting by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, now owned by a private owner. [1] Its dimensions are 27 × 18.5 cm. [2]
The First Mourning (in French Premier Deuil) is an oil painting on canvas created in 1888 by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Its dimensions are 203 by 252 centimetres (80 in × 99 in). It is in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [1]
Shepherds Find Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William Bouguereau, now in the Beaux-Arts de Paris. [ 1 ] Its subject is drawn from Tacitus 's Histories (XII.51), in which Rhadamistus , king of Armenia, tried to kill his wife Zenobia to prevent her falling into enemy hands and ...
One of the main inspirations behind this painting was the death of Bouguereau's eldest son, Georges, aged sixteen. [3] This is reflected by the theme of the painting, as while Mary cradles her dead son in her lap, so too does Bouguereau commemorate his dead son in the painting.
The Virgin with Angels (French: La Vierge aux anges), also known as The Song of the Angels is an oil painting executed in 1881 by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Its dimensions are 213.4 × 152.4 cm. [1] It is now in the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, California. [2]
The Shepherdess (French: Pastourelle), also known as The Little Shepherdess, is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889. The title is taken from the Southern French dialect . The painting depicts an idyllic , pastoral scene of a lone young woman in peasant attire posed for the artist, balancing a stick (likely her crook ...