Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907

Acquired by the present owners' uncle, circa 1910

Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, pp. 52-53, illustration of gilded bronze version
John H. Dryfhout, "Diana," Metamorphoses in Nineteenth Century Sculpture, 1975, pp. 201-13, illustration of another example p. 210, no. 39
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, p. 194, no. 144, illustration of gilded copper version, pp. 205-10, nos. 154-59, illustration of another example
Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985, p. 23, pl. 8, pp. 138-41, fig. 143, illustrations of gilded bronze and copper versions
Susan E. Menconi, Uncommon Spirit: Sculpture in America 1800-1940, New York, 1989, pp. 28-29, illustration of another example

The monumental statue of Diana was originally conceived in 1886 as a gilded copper weathervane for the top of Stanford White's Madison Square Garden tower.  The only nude figure Saint-Gaudens ever produced, the 18-foot sculpture was too large in scale for the building and was reworked, reducing it to 13 feet, and installed in 1894. 

Other examples of the 'small Diana' are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, the Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, the Gilcrease Institute of History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the New York Historical Society, New York, the New York Life Insurance Company, New York, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.