Lot 372

In fine condition with evidence of possible early professional restoration to the hair and wings.


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Thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek 5th Century BC original, the original version of this work was in the collection of the Marchesi Rondanini in Rome. Much admired by Goethe who was struck by its "unspeakable anguished stare of death" it was later acquired by King Ludwig of Bavaria and is now in the Glyptothek in Munich.