Considered an innovator in the field of realistic portraiture, a pupil of Domenico Morelli and friend of De Nittis, whose Parisian salon he was a regular visitor to, Corcos is one of the most appreciated interpreters of the feelings and customs of the Belle époque.
The most beautiful known women of the time are the undisputed protagonists of the artist's portraits, characterized by the delicacy of the stroke, by the almost photographic minuteness in the representation of luxurious objects and fabrics but also by the psychological depth of the looks that gives the subjects a mysterious magnetism .
For this reason the women painted by Corcos were defined as creatures that have something of the ghost and the flower in them.