Here’s an important-looking place replete with three different flags. But where is it? Why might it have been in recent news? Send your best guess of what it is as well as something about it. Send to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our July 17, “Marble statue in historic place,” shows the pensive “Winter” statue at Middleton Place near Charleston.
Hats off to those who identified it: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Daniel Prohaska of Moncks Corner; Jacie Godrey of Florence; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Jay Altman of Columbia; and Marian Greely of Chalreston.
Prohaska said the statue is positioned in one of four corners of the Secret Gardens at Middleton Place.
Graf provided some thoughts and information about the statue: “Back in the 1700s, the famous French sculptor, Jean-Antoine Houdon, created a masterpiece work personifying the winter season as a girl looking down and clutching her frayed shawl with crossed arms in the cold. It is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It resembles the statue at Middleton Plantation. However the French Winter version has only a shawl and nothing else and was deemed somewhat erotic. So maybe, that sculpture was used, but the Middleton version had a bit more clothing added, but nearly the same posture.
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