Antique Bronze, Late 19th Century - Polymnie

Bronze after the antique figure Polymnie
Napoleon III period, circa 1860
H. 37 cm
Part of the pearl necklace missing, crack in the neck, slight shock to the nose and slight scratches

Polymnie is one of the nine Muses, she presides in particular over the Eloquence and Rhetoric. She is represented standing, leaning against a rock, wrapped in her drapery, her chin resting on her right hand, in the attitude of meditation as on the statue that we present and as she is represented on a sculpture kept in the museum from the Louvre (MA472, from the Borghese collection), Roman copy by the Greek sculptor Philiscus.

Our bronze is a Collas reduction. Mechanical reduction process dating from the 19th century based on the use of the pantograph. It then provides mathematically accurate reductions to create copies of statues.