Cast Gallery catalogue number: C192

A woman or goddess, possibly Demeter.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.10m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Herculaneum Matron.
  • is a version of a Greek original of about 300 BC.
  • was found at Herculaneum with the Herculaneum Maiden in 1706.
  • was purchased by Dresden in 1736 from the collection of Prince Eugen in Vienna.
  • is now in Dresden, Albertinum, 326.