The painting depicts two topless women, one holding mango blossoms, on the Pacific Island of Tahiti. Currently, the painting is housed at the National Gallery of Art, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Although Tahiti is depicted as an innocent paradise, the two women in the painting confront the viewer in a way similar to that in Manet's <em>Le déjeuner sur l'herbe</em> (1863) or <em>Olympia </em>(1863), and follow an artistic tradition of comparing woman's breasts to flowers or fruit. The women in the painting also appear in two other works by Gauguin, <em>Faa Iheihe</em> (Tahitian Pastoral) (1898) and <em>Rupe, Rupe</em> (1899).