Painting by the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí in 1946. The oil on canvas, from the surrealist current, measures 90 x 119.5 cm, and is kept in Brussels at the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts.
The painting shows Saint Anthony the Abbot in a desert, kneeling and holding a cross made of two sticks to protect himself from the temptations that attack him, these are represented by a horse and a row of elephants, both with elongated legs, each carrying a temptation.
The painting literally describes the temptations to which man normally falls:
Ambition, represented by the horse, whose hoofs are worn out and full of dust.
Temptation, represented by the woman on the first elephant.
Greed, represented by the two elephants on which there is a pyramid and a golden house, and within the latter, a bust of a woman awaits him.