Later artists show scenes of more overt debauchery or, like the Italian A. Pigma in "When Claudius is away, Messalina will play" (1911), hint that it will soon follow. What was to follow is depicted in Federico Faruffini's "The orgies of Messalina" (1867–1868). A more private liaison is treated in Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida's "Messalina in the Arms of the Gladiator" (1886). This takes place in an interior, with the empress reclining bare breasted against the knees of a naked gladiator.