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| Keywords: Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry - Diana Reposing - Walters 3712.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Paul Baudry The nude goddess identified by the crescent moon in her hair and the bow and quiver at her side reclines on a blue drapery in front of a recumbent stag in a wooded glade An early inscription identifies this painting as a variant sketch for an overdoor in the hôtel of Achille Fould the Minster of State The hôtel on the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré was acquired by the Duc d'Aumale in 1872 and its decor was transferred to the Ch teau of Chantilly six years later The overdoor Diane au repos and another Venus jouant avec l'Amour were both mounted in the Galerie des Cerfs The actual overdoor is painted in grisaille unlike our sketch which is in naturalistic colors In the overdoor the majestic stag is an integral part of the composition whereas in this sketch he is barely discernible in the right background This composition illustrates the artist's practice of imparting to his traditional subjects an air of modishness or coquetry that may have resulted from his occasional use of professional beauties as models The figure of Diana reposing in the sketch and the overdoor bears a striking resemblance to Blanche D'Antigny an actress who at the age of eighteen modeled for Baudry's famous The Penitent Madeleine painted about the same time and acquired by the State at the 1859 Salon for the Nantes Museum ca 1859 oil mahogany cm 35 24 59 53 1 27 ; size cm 49 05 73 03 4 45 accession number 37 12 8441 Théophile Gautier Sale Hôtel Drouot Paris January 14-16 1873 no 5 Francois Thiébault-Sisson Sale Paris 1903 Henry Walters city Baltimore through G A Lucas Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 PB signature lower right gold paint ~ A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 Théophile Gautier dans son cadre Musée de I'ÃŽle-de France Sceaux 2011-2012 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Paul Baudry French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings of nude recumbent females prone 1859 paintings 19th-century oil on panel paintings Paintings of resting Diana Female long hair in art 1850s paintings from France Paintings of nude recumbent women on the ground outdoors | ||||
