>>1207579That's different. The "Liberty enlightening the East" was something else. That was 19 years before the construction of your statue. Pic related was supposed to be a 19 meter statue for the Suez canal.
The idea of a colossal statue of a woman holding a torch for Liberty sticked in Bartholdi's mind.
Another statue was put though, representing Ferdinand de Lesseps, sculpted by Emmanuel Frémiet,
