After the model of the so-called “Cleopatra”, acquired by Pope Julius II in 1512 and now housed in the Vatican Museums, Rome. (See F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven/London², 1982, pp. 184–187, no. 24.) During the 19th century, the figure was reproduced in various media, notably in Berlin, where it appeared in cast iron as an ornament on paperweights or as the lid finial of inkwells (cf. ibid., p. 186 n.30 = exh. cat. Berlin und die Antike, Berlin 1979, pp. 239–240, no. 450; also Ahrenhövel, Eisen statt Gold, exh. cat., Berlin 1982, pp. 201–202, no. 430; pp. 206–207, no. 442). King Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795–1861) is known to have planned the installation of such a figure in the basin at Charlottenhof Palace.