The small plants with pink blossoms surrounding the reclining nude suggest that the artist intended her to be a personification of the tamarisk, or tamarix, a shrub named after the valley of Tamaris in the Var, in southeastern France. The broad style is characteristic of Puvis about 1886.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 25.4 x 39.4 cm]
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