Cast Gallery catalogue number: C193

Woman or goddess, possibly Persephone.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.80m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Herculaneum Maiden.
  • is a version of an original of about 300 BC.
  • was found at Herculaneum with the Herculaneum Matron in the early 1700s.
  • was purchased by Dresden in 1736 from the collection of Prince Eugen in Vienna.
  • is now in Dresden, Albertinum, 327.