In June 1827, Rentis's widow sold all three statues to Carl Wilhelm von Heideck, agent of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, just a month after the Provision of the Third National Assembly at Troezen that banned the sale and export of antiquities.

[1] One of them was eventually sold by some Greeks the following month to an American captain, who donated it to the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where it was destroyed in 1937.

[1] This meant that the Nike alone stayed at Megara, until 1840 when it was transferred to the “Central Public Museum for the antiquities” that had been housed since 1835 in the Temple of Hephaestus in the agora of Athens, incorrectly then identified as the Theseum.

[4] The colossal statue, whose separately made head, arms and wings are missing and not preserved, depicts the goddess striding, with her right foot stepping on the plinth while the left one is advanced, trying thus to capture a sense of flight, while the upper part of her body is twisted in the opposite direction.

[4] The Nike wears a chiton, of which only the sleeves are visible, and a peplos with a long apoptygma, or an overfold, girt high around the goddess's waist that accentuates her body's contour.

The garment she wears enhances the impression that she is flying, as it clings to her legs and billowes in the wind on either side of Nike.