Cast Gallery catalogue number: C212

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.