Portrait of a Woman as Diana
1752
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1752
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A woman in a blue silk dress holds a bow and wears a leopard-skin sash. A quiver of arrows hangs at her side. Nattier often dressed real women as goddesses—here, Diana, the hunt goddess. The woman isn’t Madame de Pompadour, though people once thought so. The painting feels light, almost like a costume party. To see more women turned into myth, look up *Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685–1766)*.
