Pandora (sculpture)

Pandora is an 1819 neoclassical marble sculpture by Jean-Pierre Cortot, produced during his stay in Villa Medici in 1819. It shows the moment when Pandora received her box from Jupiter. It was exhibited at the 1819 Paris Salon.[1][2] It measures 159 × 48 × 35 cm.

François-Louis Dejuinne was inspired to make a drawing of it.[3] This is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers.[3]

The work was purchased by the French Minister of the Interior,[4] for the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where it has been since 1820.[5]


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References
  1. Dora Panofsky; Erwin Panofsky (2019). Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol. Princeton University Press. p. 106. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  2. Jean-René Gaborit; Katharina Barbara Lepper; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg (1989). Skulptur aus dem Louvre: 89 Werke des französischen Klassizismus 1770-1830. Stadt Duisburg.
  3. "Dessin d'après la Pandore de Cortot". culture.gouv.fr. Joconde. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  4. Les Beaux-Arts: illustration des arts et de la littérature. L. Curmer. 1843. pp. 618–.
  5. Barbillon, Claire; Chevillot, Catherine; Paccoud, Stephane; Virassamynaiken, Ludmilla; Dufieux, Phillipe. Catalague raisonné des sculptures. Paris: Museé des beaux-arts de Lyon. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-2-7572-1269-1.


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