Louis-François Roubiliac's statue of George Frideric Handel is a work of 1738 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Despite the classical allusion, he wears informal contemporary dress: a soft cap, a long shirt open at the neck, a full loose gown, and slippers, one of which lies beneath his right foot.
He is seated cross-legged, leaning on a pile of bound scores of his works, including Alexander's Feast, which was completed the same month the statue was finished.
Roubiliac was trained in Lyon, later working in Dresden under a leading Baroque sculptor, Balthasar Permoser (1651–1732), and then studying in Paris before moving to London in about 1730.
He specialised in portrait busts and funerary monuments, and was renowned for his handling of marble, particularly his creation of subtle surface textures.