The pain experienced by the mother of Cupid has its origin in the repentance of the sculptural group in the lower right corner of the portico.

The group of characters that make up the work was represented for the first time in the form of a drawing, in the margin of the poem "Poison" of the poet Charles Baudelaire, in the edition of the Flowers of Evil illustrated for the Editorial Gallimard.

Adonis was born from the Cypriot tree into which the gods converted his mother, and was the fruit of the incestuous union between Myrrha and her father Ciniras, king of Pafos.

Agonising, Adonis gives birth to the anemones, a symbol of rebirth that in the Middle Ages were transformed into white roses which, dyed with blood, became the emblem of love.

Rodin managed to get the goddess to transmit to the spectator her desire to return her beloved to life, reflected in her face full of despair and at the same time of tenderness.

In this work, the inert hand of Adonis is subject to the trunk that he will water with his own blood, and that in combination with the nectar, will make the anemone sprout.