Portrait of Demosthenes.
Plaster cast: Height: 2.10m.
Copy of a marble statue.
The statue:
- is a version of an original bronze by Polyeuktos set up at Athens in 280/279 BC.
- was possibly found in Tuscany.
- was acquired from the Villa Aldobrandini or Mondragone at Frascati in 1823.
- is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, inv. 2255.
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