The full-length female nude, while daring and potentially controversial for Victorian sculptors, represented the Neoclassical ideal. As long as nudity was cloaked in a moral, it was deemed acceptable. This version of Pandora, which Chauncey Bradley Ives first produced in 1851, was one of his most famous works. The Greek mythological figure Pandora, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind, was often associated with the biblical Creation story of Eve. Ives depicted the ill-fated Pandora in a moment of hesitation, just before she opens a vessel that releases sickness and death.