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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 ]
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.
South America by Aimé Millet; ... c. 1899 William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Equality Before Death, 1848. ... William-Adolphe Bouguereau – 12 paintings including The ...
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 ...
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]
She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823–1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), and finally under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). After Bouguereau's wife died, Gardner became his paramour and after the death of his mother, who bitterly opposed the union, she married him ...