The Biblical scene, which takes place in a bourgeois apartment, evokes a number of painting codes while distorting them. The three women embody Mary Magdalene, with her breast bared, the Virgin, closest to her child, and Mary of Cleophas beside the bearded man representing Joseph of Arimathea, while the Devil appears in the background, brandishing his fatal serpent over the coffin. An unavoidable déjà-vu oozes from this temporal and stylistic collage, with its accessories, clothes and poses.