Diana
Frederick William MacMonnies
Modeled 1889, cast after 1900
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
76.2 × 50.8 × 48.3 cm (30 × 20 × 19 in.)
Classification
sculpture
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
107051
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
While studying in Paris, the young sculptor Frederick MacMonnies modeled a life-size plaster version of Diana for exhibition at the Paris Salon of 1889. The sculpture, a depiction of the Roman goddess of the hunt, won an honorable mention and assured his reputation as an important artist both in France and in the United States. Diana then proved so popular that he produced numerous reduced-sized replicas in bronze for American patrons. True to the Beaux-Arts ideals then current in France, MacMon...