A beautiful woman with a radiant smile upon her face with abundant hair tied into a classical knot on which white powder lay like a soft hoarfrost was resting on an ottoman supported on her left arm. She was nude in her dark furs. Her right hand played with a lash while her bare foot rested carelessly on a man lying before her like a slave like a dog. In the sharply outlined but well-formed linaments of this man lay brooding melancholy and passionate devotion; he looked up to her with the ecstatic burning eye of a martyr.