There are a number of Roman copies, showing considerable variation, of the Greek prototype of the Crouching Aphrodite. This particular one was a favourite of Cézanne, who sketched it in the Louvre and adapted it in one of his “Les Grandes Baigneuses”.

Various sculptors, identities and historical references have been attached to the sculpture, but the evidence is thin. The vestige of a hand on her back presumably belonged to the baby Eros, with whom Aphrodite is frequently depicted