Grotesque Reduction - Item #80

  10.5 Inches High x 5.25 Inches Wide x 4 Inches Deep This piece is a reduction of one of the grotesques from the exterior of Notre-Dame. It is popularly called "Le Stryge." This grotesque specifically is also known as a chimera since it is an imagined creature with the body parts of several animals. The decorative grotesques were added during the mid-19th century restoration of the Cathedral by architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.   Artist: Victor Joseph Pyanet Museum/Location: Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris Origin: Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris Time Period: mid-19th century   Sources: Camille, Michael. "Monsters of Stone: The Gargoyles of Victor Joseph Pyanet." The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity, University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 51-59. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=8Y8OexJ99dYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.   "Notre Dame Cathedral Grotesque Le Stryge." DigitalGeorg