H: 1,60 m

Sculpture in patinated bronze representing a woman half dressed in a drapery, wearing sandals. She is holding her drapery between her breasts with her left hand and her right arm is holding a rhythm.

It is in the frescoes of Pompeï and in the Roman statuary that we find the representation of what we call "the lare". It is a protective divinity of the hearth: these divinities were in principle several whose usual denomination of "gods lares". Ovid in the Metamorphoses evokes these gods wearing tunics and sandals spreading prosperity of which the rython is the emblem. They are most of the time associated with Vesta, guardian of the home.

In the 19th century, for many artists, archaeology is at the center of aesthetic concerns. Following Caylus and Winckelmann, the French school of Athens was created in 1846, and the primitive Greek museum of the Louvre opened in 1849 exhibiting ancient statues.

This statuary embodies the idea of Beauty and inspires the sculptors of this century. Our sculpture is completely in this artistic movement of the return to the antique while adapting it to the new codes of the aesthetic.

Rython : drinking vessel in the shape of a horn, the end finished by an animal head. Used for libation. In ancient times it was given to gods and heroes.

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