Cherries, Lourens Alma Tadema (1873)
With Cherry, Tadema delivers a contemporary image of a beautiful, red-haired woman who looks seductively at the viewer. The canvas is large, the woman life-size and very close. She offers him cherries, an unmistakably sexual invitation. The erotically charged subject is new to the artist. The artful hairdo, the tiger skin and the antique red mural are familiar from other paintings by Tadema. The marble pilaster on the far right is his speciality
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