Cast Gallery catalogue number: C156

Portrait of Alexander the Great.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.82m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Rondanini Alexander.
  • is a version of a late 4th century BC original.
  • was formerly in the Rondanini collection in Rome.
  • was purchased for Munich in 1814 from the Marchese C. Zacchia.
  • is now in Munich, Glyptothek, 298.