Artists Balthus Girl and cat

The plot of the picture is very simple, in the naked gloomy interior there is a teenage girl, and she has a fairly peaceful cat at her feet. However, the image is indescribably vexed, perhaps due to erotic overtones, whether we see an innocent girl or a sexually experienced young woman? Indeed, Baltus has caught a kind of disturbing property of a transitional age, when the innocence of childhood, tied in this picture to the image of a cat, recedes before a new sukum sense. This is emphasized both by hips and light.