This piece from 1915 is a product of the painter’s period of artistic maturity. Julio Romero de Torres conceived the piece, “El Pecado,” (The Sin) as a complement to the painting, “La Gracia,” (Grace). Great great symbolist as he was, Julio Romero de Torres expresses it in a magnificent way in this painting “The Sin”. Together with Grace and the painting titled, “Las dos sendas,” or The Two Paths, they form the trilogy on the same subject. These three paintings come together in their meaning, constituting a veritable painting cycle in which the heroic character is women. The duality of the moral code is a constant subject in the Romero de Torres artwork: the good and bad path, the mystic love and the profane love.

The scene unravels with a green sunset with the Almodóvar Castle in the background; in the foreground, the Chruch of Saint Hipólito in Córdoba and the beauty of the nude woman, lying down in a similar way to the Velázquez Venus, back-turned indifferent to the scene that is taking place before her. Four old gossiping women dressed for mourning argue about the convenience and occasion of the sin. The honor of this woman is the object of an animated conversation among them.