Artemis1.0315_Nattier

Artemis1.0315_Nattier

OGCMA.byu.edu s.v. "Apollo"
Metropolitan Museum

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1685-1766. "Portrait of Madame Bergeret de Frouville as Diana" (1756) oil on canvas, 136.5 x 105.1 cm. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, obj. no. 03.37.3.

The artist endows the sitter, a prominent woman of wealthy Parisian society, with the classical attributes of the powerful goddess, Artemis — the crescent-moon tiara, the far-shooting bow — but seats here in solitary isolation from the eroticizing attendants so often included by European painters. Madame Bergeret was not the only subject to sit for Nattier in the costume of Artemis. At least two others are known: Artemis2.0314and Artemis1.0314.

Portrait of a woman dressed as Diana, holding a bow and pointing to a quiver of arrows, with a leopard skin over her shoulder

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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