One of two sculptures of a sphinx by French artist François Lempereur (1832-1904), dated to 1855, in the pedestrian zone of Rue du Mont-Blanc in Geneva, Switzerland, next to the Hotel Suisse. They used to guard the entrance of the Hotel de Russie, which was situated down the road and demolished in 1968/69.
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