 Small ancient bronzes of the "Crouching Venus" have survived.One, found in Syria, and formerly in the collection of Joseph Durighello, was sold by the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.The early interpretation of the figure, as Venus at her birth, about to be carried ashore — a type of Venus Anadyomene — encouraged the restoration of a shell upon which she crouches, in which form the Medici sculpture was engraved by Paolo Alessandro Maffei, "Raccolta di statue antiche e moderni...", 1704 (plate XXVIII)

Several versions of the Crouching Venus issued from the atelier of Giambologna and his heir Antonio Susini; among examples of Susini's bronze reduction, one from the collection of Louis XIV is conserved in the Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, while another, in the collection of Prince Carl Eusebius von Liechtenstein by 1658, remains in the Liechtenstein collection, Vienna.