Title: Large Herculaneum Woman
Summary: Standing woman draped in a himation over a chiton
Sculptor: In the style of Praxiteles or Lysippos
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue
Category: Original/copies
Style: Late Classical
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original (lost)
Date: ca. 350 BC
Scale: Life-size
Period: Late Classical

Subject Description: A standing woman wearing a chiton over which is wrapped a himation, so that the action of the arms (lowered left hand, right hand raised to her shoulder) pulls the himation into a dramatic diagonal across her chest.

Form & Style: The Large Herculaneum Woman (Herculanese) and her companion, the Small Herculaneum Woman, named for a pair of statues found at Herculaneum, now in Dresden, are thought by some to have copied a lost pair of Demeter and Persephone, attributed to Lysippos.

Condition: Lost