Débardeur du port d'Anvers

Débardeur du port d'Anvers, also known as Der Hafenarbeiter is a bronze sculpture created by Belgian artist Constantin Meunier in 1890.

Débardeur du port d'Anvers is based on a small wax sculpture 48 centimeters high made in 1885[2][3] in Brussels in the Salon des XX.

Other copies in different sizes of the sculpture have been made since 1893, and can be found in Antwerp (where it is considered a symbol of the port city),[3][4] Stockholm, Dresden, Copenhagen and Lima.

For a bronze copy in Frankfurt of another Meunier sculpture, Der Sower, located in the Günthersburgpark, provided in 1899 some 150,000 German gold marks.

In 1921, during the second presidency of Augusto B. Leguía, the Centennial of the Independence of Peru was celebrated and many colonies of foreign residents decided to grant gifts in the form of monuments to the Peruvian State.

The statue in the 1920s.