Diana

Frederick William MacMonnies American
 Cast by E. Gruet French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 768

While a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, MacMonnies began modeling his first statue, “Diana”. After earning an honorable mention for a life-size plaster cast of it at the Salon of 1889, MacMonnies cast Diana as a bronze statuette the following year. Here, the Roman goddess is represented as a huntress wearing a crescent-moon hairpiece. She balances athletically on one foot, having just released an arrow from the bow in her left hand. MacMonnies modeled Diana not as a perfect classical goddess but as an agile young woman, her face and body revealing the naturalism that became a hallmark of the sculptor’s style.

Diana, Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York 1863–1937 New York), Bronze, American

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Diana, Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York 1863–1937 New York), Bronze, American
Diana, Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York 1863–1937 New York), Bronze, American
Diana, Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York 1863–1937 New York), Bronze, American
Diana, Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York 1863–1937 New York), Bronze, American
Diana, Frederick William MacMonnies (American, New York 1863–1937 New York), Bronze, American

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