Details

Title

Copy after the Diana of Versailles

Artist/Maker

Pierre Julien (French, 1731–1804)

Date

1782

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

39 3/8 x 25 9/16 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from Irene and Howard Stein and through prior acquisitions from a friend, Mr. and Mrs. George Levin, and E. & A. Silberman Galleries

Accession #

2005.300

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 2, Gallery 208

In 1765, Pierre Julien won the prestigious Prix de Rome, a government-sponsored grant that provided him with funds to study at the Académie de France in Rome. There, he executed numerous drawings and sculptures based on models from antiquity. Julien modeled this work, likely intended for a private patron, after an ancient Roman marble now in the Louvre. The Roman statue was installed at Versailles by Louis XIV and in the 1700s was among the most famous classical antiquities in France.