# Afternoon in Naples

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CÉZANNE, Paul](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 37 x 45 cm

## Commentary

This openly provocative and sensual painting shows a naked couple in bed, being served with a love potion by an exotic serving-maid. The picture was regarded as an offence against public decency, as well as against the Salon, and of course this unambiguous painting was rejected.

## Related artworks

- [A Modern Olympia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/a-modern-olympia-r129a4ca3eb00a0>)
- [A Modern Olympia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/a-modern-olympia-re288b2b7c2eac8>)
- [A Path by the Lake](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/a-path-by-the-lake-ra5413f15c1357f>)
- [Bather](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bather-ra0eaded983035e>)
- [Bathers Beneath a Bridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-beneath-a-bridge-r0d1f6cdb49db31>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-r1b0f35d3444ffe>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-r2f8a3332109b00>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-r428483043284cf>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-r6b1283021c2c1e>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-r980bdee43d3e8b>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/bathers-r986a33797f37e4>)
- [Blue Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/blue-landscape-r4a089377503962>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)