"Les Amies, Les Amants” (“Friends and Lovers”) is elaborate in a different way. It shows O’Donnell and his wife in voluminous gowns, peering from a series of five doorways in a long corridor.
Above one doorway is the bottom half of a painting-within-a-painting depicting a kneeling, lovemaking couple glimpsed from the thighs down. A skull at their left and a doll’s head at their right add a memento mori touch. The overall effect on the viewer is of falling vertiginously into a Byzantine private world.
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