The figure of the seated young woman in this sculpture also appears independently as Galatea, a marble carved in the mid-1890s. The pairing of two figures is related to Shame (Absolution), also executed around 1890, in which one female figure crouches on the lap of another. While the latter combination of figures recalls the emotional intensity of the Gates of Hell, the present sculpture possesses a charm which harks back to Rodin in an earlier period, when he worked in the studio of Carrier-Belleuse.