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Diana the Huntress (Diana of Versailles)

French School

Category

Art / Sculpture

Date

1801 - 1825

Materials

Bronze

Measurements

2000 x 1250 x 750 mm

Place of origin

France

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Collection

Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire

NT 515145

Summary

Bronze, Diana the Huntress (Diana of Versailles), French School, after the antique, probably early 19th century. An over life-size bronze copy of the Diana of Versailles (Diane Chasseresse), a 2nd century Roman marble statue after a lost Greek bronze (c. 330 BC) in The Louvre (inv. no. MR 152/ Ma 589). Mounted on a panelled stone plinth. Diana was the Roman goddess of the hunt and chastity, known as Artemis in Greek mythology. Wearing a lunate crown, short chiton, himation around the waist and sandals, Diana, looking to proper right, springs forward on her proper left foot, as if in the midst of the hunt, drawing an arrow from her quiver with her proper right hand. In her proper left hand she holds the handle of a bow (the arc of the bow lost in the original marble), while a young buck prances beside her, rearing on its hind legs.

Full description

The original marble was discovered in Italy at either the Temple of Diana Nemorensis or at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, and given as a gift from Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France in 1556. One of the first antique sculptures to be seen in France, it was mounted prominently in the Jardin de la Reine at the palace of Fontainebleau. In 1602 it was removed to a specially-designed gallery, the Salle des Antiques, in the Palais du Louvre, Paris, and restored by the sculptor Barthélemy Prieur (1536-1611) who produced a replica cast in bronze for Fontainebleau. Another full-size cast in bronze was made from French moulds by Hubert Le Sueur (c.1580-1670) in 1634 for Charles I, the brother-in-law of Louis XIII; this copy was brought to Windsor Castle in 1829 (RCIN 71444). The marble statue was moved by Louis XIV to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, before being returned to the Louvre in the First Republic. The Anglesey Abbey cast, probably French, is believed to have been produced in the early 19th century before it was customary to include a foundry mark. The quality of the modelling, the base, and the way in which the limbs were set into the added base suggest an earlier date than for the colossal bronze cast of Silenus (NT 515152) which is mounted opposite Diana the Huntress. It was purchased by Lord Fairhaven in August 1949 from Bert Crowther who claimed it originally stood at Ashton Manor near Exeter, Devon. Alice Rylance-Watson 2019

Provenance

Formerly at Ashton Manor, Devon; purchased by Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Bert Crowther of Syon Lodge, 26 August 1949, £500.0.0; bequeathed to the National Trust by Lord Fairhaven with the house and the rest of the contents.

Credit line

Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)

Makers and roles

French School, founder after Barthélemy Prieur (1536 - 1611), sculptor after Hubert Le Sueur (c.1580 - Paris 1658), sculptor

References

Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 196-7, no. 30. Roper 1964: Lanning Roper, The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire. The Home of Lord Fairhaven, London 1964, p. 86, p. 72. Christie, Manson & Woods 1971: The National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge. Inventory: Furniture, Textiles, Porcelain, Bronzes, Sculpture and Garden Ornaments’, 1971, p. 165.

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