Made in the middle of the 19th century by the Ducel foundry. It’s a copy of a statue that can be found in front of the famous Palace of Versailles.
This is the allegory of the rhône river, after my model of the saône allegory.
« Icy nos deux fleuves se baisent, commençant leurs vieilles amours » as the engraver Israel Silvestre writes in the caption of an engraving depicting the confluence (then at Ainay) around 1650.
Located on an exceptional site designed by the meeting of the Rhône and the Saône rivers, Lyon (France) has often used as an emblem the representation of the meeting - or the carnal union - of the two rivers that surround it.
16k textures (albedo + normal)
simplified a little