Algardi Firedogs

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Other 17th century foundries produced copies for other royal courts, especially the Juno and Jupiter. For example, a set of these two was delivered to the Palace of Versailles in 1684. Louis XIV placed them in niches in the oval salon, but Louis XV passed them to the marquis de Marigny, director of the Bâtiments du roi, who displayed them in the château de Ménars. After the marquis' death, they were moved to the Louvre in 1795, before being converted to support a pendulum clock at Napoleon's palace of château de Saint-Cloud. The two groups were then moved to the palais des Tuileries, where in 1845 they were part-gilded by Charles Christofle. The Juno is now lost, but the Jupiter is now on display in the Louvre.

Two similar Juno and Jupiter groups were also owned by Louis, Grand Dauphin, initially displaying them in the château de Choisy then from 1695 in the château de Meudon.

• Wallace Collection, London - pair, one of the Grand Dauphin's sets^[2]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - one, plus a pair of later copies, probably 18th-century.^[3]
• Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Massachusetts - one work
• Pavlovsk Palace,^[2] St Petersburg - one work