# @newport.mansions on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CDoKiXfgi64
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71767841-newportmansions-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-08-08T12:01:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newport Mansions (@newport.mansions) — https://gondola.cc/newport.mansions

## Caption

Here is a statue fit for a king.

This 19th-century marble sculpture of Venus on the grounds of The Elms, from the studio of Jules Allard and Sons, is modeled after a mid-18th-century version by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (French, 1714-1785). Pigalle’s Venus was created as an accompanying sculpture to Mercury Attaching His Wings, now in the collection of the Louvre. It is also known as Venus with Doves and Venus Giving a Message to Mercury.

Together the two sculptures illustrate an episode from Metamorphoses by the Latin author Apuleius (c. 125-170). Pigalle was commissioned to create life-size versions of these two sculptures, which King Louis XV presented as a gift to King Frederick II of Prussia for the gardens of his palace Sans-Souci.

Look for this statue the next time you visit The Elms. www.newportmansions.org.

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