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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. [1] Equality is Bouguereau's first major painting, produced at the age of 23 after two years at the ...
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. [ 1 ]
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]
Mythological paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (9 P) Pages in category "Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs and Satyr, 1873, Clark Art Institute. Ross is a strong admirer of Adolphe Bouguereau's work. In 2002 he spoke to the New York Society of Portrait Artists and described the impression made on him in the Clark Art Institute by Bouguereau's 8.5-foot-tall (2.6 m) painting, Nymphs and Satyr:
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In Bouguereau's version, Mary is seen wearing a black cloak holding Christ close to her bosom. Eight angels in mourning form an arc around them, each of them dressed in different colors. One interpretation of this is that the angels are dressed in the colors of the rainbow, in an allusion to Noah's Ark from the Old Testament. [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 ...