The municipal page dates the installation of the sculpture to 1907 and links its shape to the Winged Victory of Samothrace. The work is part of the Palmer Channel landscape in Cabo Frio.
According to the municipal account, a storm surge toppled the sculpture in 1958, giving rise to the name Anjo Caído. The same source says a lamp once guided salt barges; this page presents those episodes as the municipality's recorded account.
