This statuette is a copy of a work by the French sculptor Charles Cumberworth in the Hermitage collection. The original is among those statuettes that were cast in bronze editions from models by Cumberworth in the 1830s and 1840s. The statuette depicts the famous Ancient Greek hetaera Frina, whose beauty contemporaries considered worthy of veneration. She acted as model for Praxiteles statue of the goddess of love known as the Aphrodite of Cnidus.
It has been skillfully crafted by experienced workmen of the Hermitage workshops. Each product has been compared to the original and approved the by the museum specialists.

Bronze.
Height 13 in. (33 cm).