Prosperity

Three young women stand shoulder to shoulder against a plain black ground, each gathering the skirt of her satin gown - olive green, deep pink and dusty lilac - in her hands. Vertical columns of flowers, grapes, peaches, pears, strawberries and cherries rise between and beside them, with butterflies scattered across the upper corners, turning the composition into a decorative, almost heraldic arrangement.

The figures are painted with smooth, academic realism in warm flesh tones and jewel-bright satin, while the flanking motifs are rendered in a flatter, more graphic manner, their saturated colors popping against the matte black background. The symmetry and repetition of fruit and flowers give the picture a stylized, emblematic quality, more decorative tableau than naturalistic scene.