Second version, exhibited at Cooke’s Gallery, New Orleans, 1849

The dispute with James Robb resulted in the remarkable situation of two versions of The Greek Slave being on show in New Orleans at the same time. After Robb laid claim to the second version, he exhibited it at Cooke’s Gallery, on 13 Saint Charles Street, from November 1848 through March 1849, for the benefit of a new asylum for destitute widows. (See Cybèle T. Gontar’s essay.) Meanwhile, Powers’s tour manager, Miner K. Kellogg, sent the third version to the city to take the place of Robb’s statue, and displayed it at the State House. At Cooke’s Gallery, The Greek Slave was shown alongside a statue of Venus by the Italian sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini. The gallery had been founded with Robb’s support, but it folded in 1849.