Diana

Frederick MacMonnies ’ earliest training in art came at the age of seventeen, when he apprenticed to Augustus Saint-Gaudens in New York . The sculptor continued his studies at the National Academy of Design and The Art Students League of New York. By 1884, he traveled to Paris , where, as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, MacMonnies began modeling his first life-size figure depicting Diana, goddess of the hunt and personification of the moon. Diana quickly earned a reputation as MacMonnies' first significant sculpture , establishing his career both at home and abroad. The life-size plaster cast, displayed at the Paris Salon of 1889, received an honorable mention.