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This 1908 canvas joins the cluster of Lovis Corinth works held at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, all dated to the same year and suggesting either a direct acquisition campaign or a group of works that entered the collection together. By 1908 Corinth's Berlin studio was a center of artistic activity, and he exhibited regularly at the Berlin Secession, where he was elected chairman in 1911. His subjects in this period ranged widely — portraits, nudes, mythological scenes, and occasional landscapes — painted with the same physical urgency regardless of motif. Dresden's commitment to German modernism made it a natural repository for Corinth's output, and its holdings offer a concentrated view of his mature pre-stroke work.

Corinth's oil technique in 1908 shows confident manipulation of wet-on-wet color, building complex hues through successive strokes rather than palette mixing. His mark-making is purposeful and directional, with individual brushstrokes readable on close inspection. Contours in this period are typically implied by tonal contrast rather than drawn lines.