Pandora (sculpture)

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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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