The goddess Nike alights on the prow of a warship, wings spread, her thin tunic pressed against her body by the wind. Found in 1863 in the sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, the statue lacks its head and arms. It is a rare Hellenistic original rather than a Roman copy, and has crowned the Louvre's Daru staircase since 1884.
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Only the left wing is ancient marble; the right is a plaster replica made in the 1880s. The palm of her right hand, found on Samothrace in 1950, is shown with the statue.
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