The painting is currently housed in le Musée des Augustins, in Toulouse, France.

Against the backdrop of a desert landscape, a naked man appears to advance towards a floating female figure clothed in a virginal white dress that emanates in the right portion of the painting.

The man in the painting is followed by a group of women clothed in transparent flowery attire.

In the center of the group is a woman in black dress with peacock feathers and butterfly wings, which symbolize vice in its many forms.

Martin adopted a divisionist (pointillist) technique upon returning to Paris from Italy in the 1880s[2] His style was slowly transitioning from realism.