This head of the Greek orator Demosthenes (384 to 322 BCE) is a Roman copy of a bronze original which was set up in Athens. When found this head was attached to a seated figure to which it did not belong.
There are a number of copies derived from the Greek bronze original. Facially Demosthenes appears a lot younger here than in others
Paris, Louvre
Purchased in 1884 from the Paris Beaux Arts
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 33 (for portraits of Demosthenes)
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 113, no.590 or 591
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 895, no.529