La Montagne, Lead sculpture in Tuileries Garden, Paris, France

La Montagne is a lead sculpture with a black patina showing a seated nude woman, her right elbow bent and hand touching her head, her left hand resting on the base and her right leg sunk into it. The raised elbow and knee form intersecting triangles of void and mass. It stands on a slab engraved "A. MAILLOL." in the Tuileries.

The first version was carved in stone, commissioned by the Musée national d'art moderne in 1936 and now held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. The lead version was cast by the Rudier and Émile Godard foundries in six numbered editions and placed in the Tuileries gardens in 1964–1965 alongside other Maillol sculptures. Other casts are in Pasadena, Canberra, Saint Louis, Columbus, the Musée Maillol in Paris and Kenyon College.

Dina Vierny, Maillol's longtime collaborator, posed for the figure. The raised elbow and knee form intersecting triangles, and the right leg sinks into the base as if binding the woman to the earth. The work marks the peak of Maillol's seated female nudes, a theme begun nearly thirty years earlier with La Nuit and Le Méditerranée.

The sculpture sits within the Tuileries Garden, which is open daily from early morning through late evening. The setting allows visitors to see this piece alongside other related works in one walking route.

The right leg of the figure sinks into the base, as if to show a close bond between the woman and the earth. The raised elbow and knee create a play of void and form, heightened by the wind-blown hair and the movement of the hand.