AFTER THE ANTIQUE, CIRCA 1880

The original statue is first recorded for certain at Fontainebleau in February 1586. Under Louis XIV, it was transfered to the Grande Galerie at Versailles. It was taken in 1792 to the Muse central des Arts later Muse Napolon, now Muse du Louvre, where it remains. The first recorded copy of the statue is the bronze cast in 1605 by Barthlemy Prieur for a fountain at Fontainebleau which was intended as a durable substitute for the marble when it was removed to the Louvre. Another full-size copy was made for Charles I of England in 1634 by Hubert Le Sueur. From the second half of the eighteenth century, the Diana Chasseresse was also reproduced large and small in bronze, plaster and lead. It was reproduced in the 1770's in earthenware by Ralph Wood of Burslem. In the late nineteenth century it was still included in most sets of plaster casts, where it was frequently paired with the Apollo Belvedere.