Athena of Piraeus

Artist/Maker Copy of Cephisodotos or Euphranor (?)

So-called “Mattei Athena”. Marble, Roman copy from the 1st century BC/AD after a Greek original of the 4th century BC, attributed to Cephisodotos or Euphranor. Related to the bronze Piraeus Athena.

H. 2.3 m (7 ft. 6 ½ in.). Credit line Entered the Mattei Collection in 1626; purchased by Cardinal Fesch, 1808; purchased by Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon, 1814; purchased by Louis XVIII, 1821. Accession number Ma 530 (LL 300). Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon, ground floor, room 12