ITALIAN OR FRENCH, AFTER THE ANTIQUE, 19TH CENTURY

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A PLASTER BUST OF DIANA THE HUNTRESS
ITALIAN OR FRENCH, AFTER THE ANTIQUE, 19TH CENTURY
Depicted facing to dexter and wearing a diadem; on an integrally cast cylindrical socle and later marble-effect cylindrical column; minor surface dirt, very minor chips to the diadem
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 49¼ in. (125.5 cm.) high, the pedestal

Literature

B. Stoeltie, 'Vintage Burgundy', The World of Interiors, June 2005, pp. 92-99.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 196-8, no. 30.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present bust of Diana the Huntress, or Diana Chasseresse, is an adapted life-size cast from the 4th century AD Roman original, itself a copy of a lost Greek bronze, housed in the Louvre, Paris. The original was greatly admired since it was first recorded in Fontainbleau in 1586, and during the 18th and 19th centuries was reproduced both on a small and large scale in plaster, lead and bronze.

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