Tamaris, ca. 1886?87, Oil on canvas, 10 x 15 1/2 in. (25. 4 x 39. 4 cm), Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824?1898 Paris), The small plants with pink blossoms surrounding the reclining nude suggest that the artist intended her to be a personification of the tamarisk, or tamarix, a shrub named after the valley of Tamaris in the Var, in southeastern France