After the Deluge, also known as The Forty-First Day, originally exhibited as The Sun, is a Symbolist oil painting by George Frederic Watts, first exhibited in an incomplete form in 1886 and completed in 1891. It shows a scene from the story of Noah's flood, in which after 40 days of rain Noah opens the window of the Ark to see that the rain has ceased falling. Watts felt that modern society was in decline owing to a lack of moral values, and he often painted works on the topic of the Flood and its cleansing of the unworthy from the world. The painting takes the form of a stylised seascape, dominated by a bright sunburst breaking through clouds. Although this was a topic Watts had painted previously in The Genius of Greek Poetry in 1878, After the Deluge took a radically different approach.