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A FRENCH CAST-IRON FIGURE OF HOPE looking to her right, her hair decorated with flowers, with the right hand raised and her left supporting the anchor, on a naturalistic base with square foot (some rusting), second half 19th century

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A FRENCH CAST-IRON FIGURE OF HOPE looking to her right, her hair decorated with flowers, with the right hand raised and her left supporting the anchor, on a naturalistic base with square foot (some rusting), second half 19th century
71in. (180.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Hope, with Faith and Charity, is one of the three 'theological virtues'. The anchor, partly hidden by her robes, derives from St. Paul, who said of Hope (Heb. 6:19), 'It is like an anchor for our lives . . . it enters in through the veil.' In the Greek myth of Pandora, only Hope remained after the box had been opened and the evil spirit released.

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