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William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed this allegorical work showing Death as the great equalizer. Figures of all ranks face mortality together. Bouguereau's technical mastery serves this meditation on human fate.
The French academic painter was known for polished technique and moralizing subjects. This work hangs at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Other masterpieces from the Academic Art movement

Rosa Bonheur, 1853
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1909
Tate Britain, London

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888
Private Collection, Unknown

Alexandre Cabanel, 1863
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1866
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Frederic Leighton, 1895
Tate Britain, London

Frederic Leighton
Leighton House Museum, London, London
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