Painting and Sculpture

Diana Surprised

Diana Surprised (French: Diane surprise) is an 1879 oil painting by Jules Joseph Lefebvre. It depicts Diana and her attendants trying to cover themselves after being surprised while bathing naked. Lefebvre did not feel it was complete in time for the Exposition Universelle of 1878, but it was featured at the Salon of 1879 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Argentina. The painting is 279cm by 371.5cm depicting the goddess Diana and her Nymphs bathing. The scene is from Ovid's Metamorphoses and depicts the moment where the hunter Actaeon stumbles upon Diana and her attendants. The painting was originally exhibited with a short poem written by Georges Lafenestre at the Salon of 1879.

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• ▸List of works by Albert Bierstadt
• ▸Circulatory system
• ▸General Augereau at the Bridge of Arcole

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