Edouard SAIN (Cluny, 1830 - Paris, 1910) Pandora Oil on canvas Signed 'E. Sain' lower right (Restorations) No frame Pandora, oil on canvas, signed, by E. Sain 28.74 x 21.26 in. 73.0 x 54.0 cm Provenance: Gérard Lévy Collection ; Then by descent Exhibitions: L'Art et la Vie en France à la Belle Époque, Île de Bendor, Fondation Paul Ricard, September - October 1971, cat. no. 281: "Pandore" [label on back]. A student of François-Édouard Picot at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Édouard Sain made his debut at the Salon in 1853, winning silver and bronze medals at the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. Initially a history and genre painter, drawing much of his inspiration from his travels in the Pyrenees and Italy, he turned exclusively to portraiture and female nudes from the late 1870s. Depicting the myth of Pandora, our painting belongs to the symbolist part of his work. Half-naked in a lush landscape, the daughter of Hephaestus is caught in a moment of reverie, shortly before committing the irreparable act. Edouard SAIN (Cluny, 1830 - Paris, 1910) 73.0 x 54.0 cm A student of François-Édouard Picot at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Édouard Sain made his debut at the Salon in 1853, winning silver and bronze medals at the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. Initially a history and genre painter, drawing much of his inspiration from his travels in the Pyrenees and Italy, he turned exclusively to portraiture and female nudes from the late 1870s. Depicting the myth of Pandora, our painting belongs to the symbolist part of his work. Half-naked in a lush landscape, the daughter of Hephaestus is caught in a moment of reverie, shortly before committing the irreparable act.