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Stuck used photographs as templates for these paintings. He had model posed in the role of Salome, while he himself took on the role of the servant. Stuck already had used photographs for earlier paintings. He already had posed for the photographer, probably with his wife Mary, for the painting Kampf ums Weib (1905) as one of the wrestlers, and for Dissonanz (1910), in the role of Pan.
According to the art critic Hans Hofstätter, "the femme fatale, and especially Salome was the social symbol of the turn of the century and thus the double of the artist, who also knows that he prostitutes himself and reveals his most sacred feelings and secrets cheaply". By posing himself as a model for the figure of the servant, Stuck himself becomes a voyeur in his own painting.
Salome femme fatale