The Death of the Niobe’s Children
Relief of a front panel of a sarcophagus.
Marble.
Roman work of the 1st century BCE (?) after a Greek original of the 430s BCE by Phidias.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4223 / А. 434.Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage MuseumPhoto by Ilya Shurygin

The Death of the Niobe’s Children.

Relief of a front panel of a sarcophagus.
Marble.
Roman work of the 1st century BCE (?) after a Greek original of the 430s BCE by Phidias.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4223 / А. 434.

Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).

Private collection, Campana.
Origin:
Acquired in 1862 from the collection of Marquis Gianpietro Campana, Rome.
Credits:
© 2014. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Data: museum annotation.
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