# Drama and Music

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## Artwork

- Artist: [THOMAS, Gabriel-Jules](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/thomas-gabriel-jules-r9ee06be10b33b9>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Polychrome marble and bronze, height 260 cm

## Commentary

The picture shows the stalls entrance in the Opéra in Paris. In this pair of caryatides, materialistic extravagance is allied to imaginative restraint in a combination typical of much Second Empire decorative sculpture.

## Related artworks

- [The Stoning of St Stephen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/thomas-gabriel-jules-r9ee06be10b33b9/the-stoning-of-st-stephen-rfc1c51a2fd348a>)
- [Virgil](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/thomas-gabriel-jules-r9ee06be10b33b9/virgil-rb62c7813d0ea7a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)