After the Misdeed

This work can be placed among the artist's genre paintings of late 19th-century Paris. Here the tone is moralizing. The subject of women who fell prey, both to their own passions and to those of the opposite sex was popular in England and France in the 19th century. Jean Béraud was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque. Béraud's paintings often included truth-based humour and mockery of late 19th century Parisian life, along with frequent appearances of biblical characters in then contemporary situations.