Unknown artist, Sleeping Ariadne
Sculpture in patinated plaster. After an antique model. Length 56, height 40 cm.
Minor damages, repairs, stains, marks.
The Sleeping Ariadne, housed in the Vatican Museums in Vatican City, is a Roman Hadrianic copy of a Hellenistic sculpture from the Pergamene school from the 2nd century BC, and is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity.