Female nude adjusting her hair. Roman work derived from Greek prototypes. Rather than being a direct copy of a now-lost mid fifth century BCE Greek original, she may be the result of a bundling together of different styles, as was common at that time and place.

Within a few years of its discovery the sculpture had been used as a model, controversial for its nudity, in a couple of eminent Victorian paintings. The best known of these is A Sculptor’s Model by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who coincidentally was present at the opening ceremony of this cast collection, in 1884