 To judge by the number of copies that have been excavated on Roman sites in Italy and France, this variant on Venus seems to have been popular.A number of examples of the "Crouching Venus" in prominent collections have influenced modern sculptors since Giambologna and have been drawn by artists since Martin Heemskerck, who made a drawing of the Farnese "Crouching Venus" that is now in Naples.The model is often related to a corrupt passage in Pliny the Elder's "Natural History" (xxxvi.4), enumerating sculptures in the Temple of Jupiter Stator in the Portico of Octavia, near the Roman Forum; the text has been emended to a mention of "Venerem lavantem sese Daedalsas, stantem Polycharmus" ("Venus washing herself, of Daedalsas, [and another], standing, of Polycharmus"), recording a sculpture of a Venus who was not standing, by the otherwise unknown Doidalses or Daedalsas.