Describe Couture's eighteenth century painting "A Roman Feast", and explain how it plays into the other images on the facing page.

Couture's painting displays no food as the title suggests, but instead the naked rear view of a voluptuous reclining female. The painting itself is certainly sensual enough, though its reclining female nude creates a peaceful pleasurable balance to the dramatic sensuality of "Pan and Syrinx" on the facing page