Sitting on an ivory seat in front of the entrance to the Temple of the Muses in Croton, Southern Italy, Pythagoras addresses his best pupils, who have suspended a golden lyre (top left) to celebrate his 80th birthday, the day before.
Frontespiece in the sixth volume of Sylvain Maréchal's (anonymously published) Voyages de Pythagore en Égypte, dans la Chaldée, dans l'Inde, en Crète, à Sparte, en Sicile, à Rome, à Carthage, à Marseille et dans les Gaules; suivis de ses lois politiques et morales, Paris: Deterville, An VII [1799].