Figure of Plenty

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The "Figure of Plenty" by Bertel Thorvaldsen is a sculpture of a young woman. The woman is depicted with short hair and a bare torso. A cloth wraps around her lower body, and another piece of fabric drapes over her left shoulder and around her back. She holds a basket filled with fruit and grains in her left arm, and her right arm is wrapped around the bundle. The sculpture is made of dark gray stone or metal and stands on a square base. The woman faces slightly to the right with her weight on her right leg.