"Diane Huntress - According To Houdon (1741-1828)."
Bust of "Diane Chasseresse" after the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon bronze with two patinas of origin, on rotating base. Bearing the signature of Houdon on the back, as well as the seal and signature of the founder "Susse brothers in Paris", vintage second part of the nineteenth,Dimension: Height: 48cm, in excellent condition. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) is one of the most important sculptors of the eighteenth Diane is the goddess of hunting, and the night in Roman mythology, assimilated to Artemis in Greek mythology. Daughter of Jupiter and twin sister of Apollo, god of the Sun Armed with a bow, arrows and short dressed she lives in the forests. Diane is depicted with a crescent moon on her head
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