Schlafende Ariadne
Dimensions without base: 25 x 32 x 9.5 cm.
Rome, 19th century.

Figure of the sleeping Ariadne formed in white marble after the well-known sculpture in the Vatican Museums, a Hadrian copy of a Greek original from the 2nd century B.C., which was acquired by Pope Julius II from the citizen of Rome Angelo Maffei in 1512. On ebonized stepped wooden base. Smaller chips and patina abrasion. (1220607) (13)