Pandora (sculpture)

[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.

[6] In a letter, dated 17 April 1817, Cortot declared he was resuming his work on the theme, with a version that was "of a younger and half-draped nature".

[5] This is the second sculpture by Cortot to be added to the collections at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, following the now-disappeared Euridipe statue.

According to art historians Dora and Erwin Panofsky, a sketch by François-Louis Dejuinne, on which it is noted "composed and executed in marble by Cortot", is kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, and is said to be the model for the statue.

Jupiter uses Pandora to take revenge on Prometheus for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity.

[5] "Thin, upright and pensive, Cortot's Pandora takes on the appearance of an antique Roman column with her impeccable form and her tunic with its straight, fluted folds".