After Anselme Flamen (1647-1717) French

art market, London and New York, acquired in 1999
on long-term loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Daniel Katz, European Sculpture, May 6-21, 1999, cat. no. 12 (there given to Corneille van Cleve)
Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Guilhem Scherf, and James David Draper, eds., Cast in Bronze, French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, Musée du Louvre Éditions, Paris, 2009, no. 99

Dark brown lacquer over golden-brown patina. Standard wear and surface abrasions.
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Guilhem Scherf attributed this sculpture to Anselme Flamen on the basis of its similarity to the artist's series of figures, Companions of Diana, executed for the park at Marly.

Flamen, appointed professor at the French academy in 1701, exhibited a bronze sculpture of Diana at the Louvre in 1704 which is now lost. The presence of a tree trunk support in this cast, an unnecessary addition to a small bronze statuette, almost certainly indicates that it was cast from a model for a much larger marble group where a support would distribute the weight of the marble over a wider surface.