Demosthenes
This head of the Greek orator Demosthenes (384 to 322 BCE) is a Roman copy of a bronze original which was set up in Athens. When found this head was attached to a seated figure to which it did not belong.
There are a number of copies derived from the Greek bronze original. Facially Demosthenes appears a lot younger here than in others
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Paris, Louvre
Size:
0.51m
Accession:
Purchased in 1884 from the Paris Beaux Arts
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 33 (for portraits of Demosthenes)
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 113, no.590 or 591
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 895, no.529
Date:
Roman. Original: 280 or 279 BCE
Sculptor:
Of original: Polyeuktos
Number:
503