A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF DIANA, after Jean-Antoine Houdon, the naked goddess standing and balancing on her left foot, a bow in her left hand, her right hand pointing forwards, on a circular stepped base signed Houdon 1796 and stamped BRONZE, late 19th Century

A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF DIANA, after Jean-Antoine Houdon, the naked goddess standing and balancing on her left foot, a bow in her left hand, her right hand pointing forwards, on a circular stepped base signed Houdon 1796 and stamped BRONZE, late 19th Century

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: H. H. Aaronson, The Sculptures of Houdon, Phaidon, London, 1975, p. 45, figs 40b-42

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Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) made two casts in bronze of the Goddess Diana. The first was commissioned by Giradot de Marigny in 1782 and is now in the Huntington Collection, San Marino, California. The second is dated 1790 and is now in the Louvre. A Version in Terracotta, executed Circa 1778 is in the Frick Collection, New York.

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