Hand-patinated resin reproduction of a bronze original in the Musée d'Orsay Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), ca. 1900 Maillol devoted himself to sculpture from 1895 onwards, after having devoted himself to painting and the decorative arts. This graceful figure is one of his first works modelled in clay. He would have several bronzes made of it a few years later. At first, Maillol produced small-scale works. From 1902 onwards, he began to work on larger sculptures, such as Méditerranée, which made him famous. Even if we already perceive in this small figure all the monumentality and classicism