This zinc statue of l’Adorant with his arms raised in worship, based on an original from the antique, was acquired in the 1850’s by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert for the gardens at Osborne House, their summer residence in the Isle of Wight. The statue was cast by the Berlin founders M. Geiss, who exhibited a bronzed zinc cast of stags in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London that were purchased by Prince Albert. This is one of the eleven zinc cast statues after originals from antiquity that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert acquired from M Geiss for Osborne House. The others included Urania, Euterpe, Ganymede, Venus of Capua, Meleager, Bacchus, Venus de Medici, Ceres, Medea and Venus d’Arles.