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"The restoration of the “Monte Cavallo Dioscure” cast in 2006–2007 offers us the opportunity to take a look at its tormented history up to its arrival in the Louvre Museum’s cast collection at Versailles’s Petites É?curies du Roi. How did the idea of such an imposing cast appear and to what ends? Since its erection on Rome’s Quirinal in the sixth century AD, the original group continued to amaze European courts, and all over Europe, monarchs repeatedly requested permission to make casts of the group. French projects were quickly planned, but only in 1823 were casts finally obtained for the Louvre, from Rome via London. In 1868, the cast was transferred to the à?cole Impériale des Beaux-Arts; however, in 1970, it ended its stay chopped down in pieces and evacuated to the Petites Écuries du Roi in Versailles. Put under the supervision of the Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities of the Louvre Museum in 2001, this colossal cast is now re-erected in the Gypsothèque’s rotunda.