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. It is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Equality is Bouguereau's first major painting, produced at the age of 23 after two years at the de Paris. Bouguereau made his debut at the Salon of 1849 with the painting.
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