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Summary

Artist
Copy of Leochares (?)
Description
Artemis with a hind, better known as "Diana of Versailles". Marble, Roman artwork, Imperial Era (1st-2nd centuries CE). Found in Italy.
Dimensions H. 2 m (6 ft. 6 ½ in.)
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17
Accession number
Ma 589 (MR 152 )
Credit line Given by pope Paul IV to Henry II of France
Source/Photographer Scanned from a book printed in 1899

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Original caption:

"DIANA. Photo-engraving from the original marble statue in the Louvre at Paris.

The most celebrated of the existing statues of Diana is the Diana of Versailles, from Hadrian's villa at Tibur. It has been in France since the time of Henry IV. Formerly it was at Versailles, but it is now one of the treasures of the Louvre. It plainly belongs to the school of the Apollo Belvedere, and there is no reson why it might not have formed a part of the group in which the Apollo stood. Diana is represented as a slender huntress, leading her hind and hastening forward, as if in pursuit of game. She looks toward the right, as, with raised arm, she is about to draw an arrow from the quiver."

Français : « Diane de Versailles » — statue d'Artémis chassant, accompagnée d'une biche. Copie romaine d'époque impériale (Ier—IIe siècle de notre ère) d'un original grec en bronze attribué au sculpteur athénien Léocharès (IVe siècle av. J.-C.)

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