The Marble Statue

The Marble Statue
Title page of "Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing" and "The Marble Statue", Berlin 1826
AuthorJoseph von Eichendorff
Original titleDas Marmorbild
LanguageGerman
Publication date
1818
Publication placeGermany

The Marble Statue (German: Das Marmorbild) is an 1818 novella by the German writer Joseph von Eichendorff. Set around Lucca, it is about a man who struggles to choose between piety, represented by a musician and a beautiful maiden, and a world of art, represented by a statue of Venus.