Art Institute of Chicago
Diana
Frederick W. MacMonnies (American, 1863–1937)LinkedCulture matchlcp-250349c0a0c0
- Date
- Modeled 1889, cast after 1900
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 107051
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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, MacMonnies included traditional symbols of the goddess such as the bow in her hand and the crescent moon in her hair, recalling classical precedent. However, his naturalistic rendering of the nude female figure, modeled from life, has a lively grace that marks MacMonnies’s independence from strict neoclassical tradition.
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- Credit line
- Roger McCormick Fund
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