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The First Mourning, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The First Mourning

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1888

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Adam and Eve hold the body of Abel, the first human death, and do not yet have a word for what has happened.

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