Cast Gallery catalogue number: C195b

Niobe and one of her daughters.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.26m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is one of the group of Florence Niobids showing Niobe and her fourteen children.
  • is a version of an original of the late 4th century or 3rd century BC.
  • is possibly based on an original group from Rome recorded by Pliny.
  • was found in Rome on the Esquiline in 1583.
  • is now in Florence, Uffizi.