Woman Bitten by a Snake (Femme piquée par un serpent)
1847
Marble, 56 x 180 x 70 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
This work was exhibited at the 1847 Salon. The statue was based on a body cast of Mme. Sabatier, and provoked one of the liveliest art scandals of the nineteenth century.
