SLEEPING ARIADNE, Italian, Rome, 18th/19th century

Italian, Rome, 18th/19th century

marble with variegated marble base
length 32 in.; 81 cm.

Provenance:
Known as The Sleeping Ariadne, and also often identified as Cleopatra, this reclining figure was carved after the antique prototype dating from the late Hadrianic period (itself a copy of a 2nd century BC Greek prototype) in the collection of The Musei Vaticani, Rome. The statue was first recorded in 1512 as having been acquired by Pope Julius II.

RELATED LITERATURE
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven and London, 1981, no. 24, pp. 184-187