Several years ago I found this on ebay and of course I had to bid on it. The pic is not one of the common views of the Versailles castle and it seems to be difficult, a challenge.
The picture shows the allegory of the french River Seine as an old bearded man with a laurel wreath, an urn with floating water and a putto. The sculpture was creatd by leHongre and casted in bronce late 17th century. It is one of 8 sculpture groups on the huge terrasse (french: le platerre d'eau) close to the two huge water bassins. They symbolize La Loire & le Loiret, Le Rhône & la Saône, La Seine & la Marne, La Garonne & la Dordogne
In 2007 I made a photography of the allegory of the River Rhone
the jigsaw puzzle is a F.X. Schmid made in 'Western-Germany', which means before 1989.
Hopefully it is complete...!
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Yesterday I chose it and started separating the corner- and edgepieces from blue, brown and grey coloured pieces.
As soon as the frame and the blue pieces were assembled I realized that there must be a mistake.
I had two pieces left but they didn't fit. My husband and me tried to figure out what happened. We reassembled those nine pieces and then started to assort the pieces in the box to check out if they hide inside. And they really did:
those two pieces on the right side have to fit somewhere in the middle of the building. But they really look like they belong to those of the frame.
Next step: I started to turn all pieces downside up to build the castle
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