The nineteenth century critics saw sculpture as the best artistic medium for expressing the eroticism of the female nude because of the sensuality of its materials and its three-dimensionality. In his interpretation of a Christian iconography with a long tradition in the arts, the temptations to which Saint Anthony was exposed by the Devil, Borrás emphasises the lascivious poses of the women who shamelessly offer their youthful attractions to the chaste hermit monk.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2020, p.186 nº 27