Bold youth. William Bouguereau created this giant, nine-foot-wide painting Equality before Death in 1848 when he was twenty-three. The only other Bouguereau in Masculin / Masculin is The Flagellation of Christ, which like many works in the exhibit exploring the male nude, isn't.
I would have chosen The First Mourning (1888), depicting Abel across Adam's lap, painted by Bouguereau at sixty-three, after the death of his second son. He outlived four of his five children.
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