Description
‘Diane à la Biche’ /Diana of Versailles
A late 19th century, French, bronze figure of ‘Diane à la Biche’ (Chasseresse). Standing drawing an arrow from her quiver, her left hand restraining a rearing doe. Original dark brown patination.
The Louvre statue is a Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, 325BC.
Height 10 3/4″ (27.3cm)
Width 6 1/4″ (16cm)
Base 3 1/2″ x 4 1/4 (9cm x 11cm)
French
Circa 1870
