 Alexandre Lenoir was the one who salvaged the piece from the collection of the church during the Revolution, and exhibited it in his "Musée national des Monuments Français".Later it was in the possession of the wealthy Far-Eastern merchant, Louis Fidel Debruge-Dumenil, and when it was acquired by the Louvre in 1861, this was from the collection of Prince Pierre Soltykoff.The statue, forty-one cm high, represents the pinnacle of Gothic art, and the late medieval ideal of beauty.