Little Mermaid

Patrick Costello

In 1909, the Danish beer baron Carl Jacobsen was so moved after attending a ballet performance of The Little Mermaid that he commissioned sculptor Edvard Eriksen to create a statue of the fairytale character to grace Copenhagen's harbourfront.
The face of the statue was modelled after the ballerina Ellen Price, while Eline Eriksen, the sculptor's wife, modelled for the body.

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