Plaster is the original model from which Canova drew the marble for Giuseppe Giacomo Albrizzi (Berlin, Nationalgalerie) and the one purchased in 1802 by Josephine de Beauharnais (St. Petersburg, Ermitage). Daughter of Zeus and Hera, in Greek mythology Ebe was a divinity of youth and cup-holder of the gods. Canova represents her as a half-naked girl with still immature shapes, while she glides on a cloud of Olympus mixing nectar and ambrosia, with a forward movement that makes the fabric adhere to the body, curling it in jagged outlines on the back.