DEMOSTENE, Belvedere -- acquired from the Villa Aldobrandini-Mondragone, Frascati, 1823 -- found in TOSCANA.

Speranza


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.