The original marble of which this is a cast was, according to Montfaucon, known since the early 17th century. He, and Pietro Santi Bartoli, who engraved it in his Gli Antichi Sepolcri (1768), plate 108, record it as having been found in the ruins of a sepulchral monument on the Via Appia, today known as the Triopeion, a funerary complex erected by Herodes Atticus in the 2nd century in commemoration of Annia Regilla, his wife. The marble then entered the Borghese Collection and when this cast was made was at the Villa Borghese in Rome. It was restored by V. Pacetti in 1779. It was amongst the almost 700 Roman sculptures acquired by Napoleon from his brother-in-law Prince Camillo Borghese and taken to Paris where since 1807 it has been in the Musée du Louvre (inventory number MR873 (Ma 590); dated to 160 AD) where it is titled 'Three Tyches'.

Tyche, the daughter of Oceanus, was the Greek goddess of Fortune. Since the Hellenistic period each Greek city had its own guardian Tyche, represented with a crown shaped like the city walls or ramparts. This relief shows three Goddesses wearing chiton and mantle and with turreted mural crowns each with 3 or 4 towers, walking from left to right, the leading figure with her head turned back.

Acquired by Soane from the architect Lewis Wyatt, 1834.

Jan Zahle, Thorvaldsen: Collector of Plaster Casts from Antiquity and the Early Modern Period, Vol. II, p.187-188, Thorwaldsen inventory no. L278 and Vol. III, p.229 (illustration of Thorwaldsen example).