Painting reproduction on canvas of the artwork
The sin 1 (Stuck)

A true icon of symbolist art, “The sin 1” is the quintessence of the femme fatale as seen by Franz von Stuck. In a highly stretched horizontal format (panoramic), the artist presents a woman of sensual and deadly beauty, languorously lying on her back. Her alabaster skin radiates in the heart of the canvas, framed by luxuriant red hair. A deep black constrictor snake coils intimately around her naked body, the reptile’s head resting viciously near the temptress’s face. The warm brown background, painted with broad brushstrokes, accentuates the damp and stifling heat of the scene. This absolute masterpiece embodies with unprecedented power dark eroticism, the lure of the forbidden, and the biblical myth of original sin.