Bathing Diana

This silver figure is based on a bronze statuette by Giambologna, sculptor to the Medici Grand-Dukes of Tuscany. Giambologna's signed bronze (now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) is securely documented for the first time in Ferdinando de' Medici's 1584 inventory. Although originally described as a woman kneeling, the model is inspired by a famous Hellenistic sculpture of Venus and now generally known as Kneeling Venus drying herself.
Stamped with "sitting lion"?, probably French, 18th century
Height: 33,3cm (without the silver plated 19th century soccle)