A SEDUCTIVE ACT, oil on canvas, 19th century

The act showing a lying woman on a stepped surface.

A naked body with a porcelain complexion was juxtaposed with the impenetrable darkness of the background. Its luminosity seems to emerge from the very interior of the model.

The woman turns her head to show her slender neck. Her flaming waves of hair combine with the dark frame of the interior. She seduces the viewer not only with the beauty of her body, but also with the mysteriousness of her face.