The Sin

The Sin was conceived as a companion piece to Julio Romero de Torres's The Grace: where that painting stands for virtue, this one depicts sin. A nude woman lies face down on a bed, and her reflection appears in the mirror she is gazing into. Around the bed, four women dressed in mourning talk among themselves while holding the mirror and an apple, both emblems of sin. In the background, the Real Colegiata de San Hipólito rises in the middle distance of a landscape, and farther off a mountain crowned by a castle completes the view. The same theme appears in another work by the artist, The Two Paths. The picture was shown at the 1915 National Exhibition of Fine Arts and is now displayed at the Julio Romero de Torres Museum, where it is on deposit from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Its closed, somber composition depends on the contrast between the bare central figure and the black garments of the women around her.

Painter

Julio Romero de Torres

Date

1913

Medium

tempera, oil paint, canvas

Dimensions

185 × 202 cm

Museum

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Genre

nude

Depicts

high heels, naked woman, Iglesia de San Hipólito (Córdoba), mirror, bed, apple

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