Oil Paintings by Paul Désiré Trouillebert

Diana the Huntress (alternatively ‘Polująca Diana’ or ‘Diana Chasseresse’) by Paul Desiré Trouillebert

The Harem Servant Girl (Servante du harem, 1874) by French painter Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1869-1900)

The Nude Snake Charmer (La charmeuse de serpents), oil on canvas painting (possibly painted around 1880) by Paul Trouillebert

Paul Desiré Trouillebert (1869-1900), the famous French painter of Barbizon School is known for his portrait paintings and landscapes. He was interested in Orientalism and produced paintings of with oriental settings. For instance, he painted a portrait of a half-nude young servant woman (The Harem Servant Girl) in an ancient Egyptian style of the Greco-Roman Dynasty. The Hookah, the banana plant and the headgear of the girl are typical of oriental settings. Similarly, in the Nude Snake Charmer, the theme itself and the cobra represent oriental ideas.

Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing by Jean-Francois de Troy

Image: Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing (1722-24), oil on canvas painting by French Rococo painter and tapestry designer Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752).

Diana and Actaeon by Cavaliere d'Arpino

Diana and Actaeon (1603-1606), oil-on-copper painting by Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640), also known as Cavaliere d'Arpino, size 50 cm x 69 cm, located at Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.

Diana of Versailles in the garden of Fontainebleau Castle

Photo: This photo, taken on 17 August 2008, shows a bronze copy of Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a hind), which is a marble statue of Roman artwork of 1st-2nd centuries CE. The original marble statue is located at Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Diana Surprised by Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Image: Diana Surprised (Diane surprise), oil on canvas painting drawn in 1879 by French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) currently located at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Diana Statue in Schloss Schwetzingen

Photo of statue of Diana in Schloss Schwetzingen, Germany

Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a hind), view 2

Photo: Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a hind), located at Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a hind)

Photo: Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a hind), marble statue, Roman artwork of the Imperial Era (1st-2nd centuries CE), height 2 m (6 ft. 6 ½ in.), located at Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 17, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Described as ‘the most celebrated of the existing statues of Diana is the Diana of Versailles, from Hadrian's villa at Tibur’, it has been in France since the time of Henry IV.

Diana (La Baigneuse) by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain

Diana (La Baigneuse) the 1778 marble sculpture by French artist Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (1710-1795), 1.70 m (5 feet 6 ¾ in) tall, located at the Department of Sculptures, Richelieu, lower ground floor, Cour Puget, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Diana the Huntress by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Image: Diana the Huntress (1867), oil on canvas painting by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), dimensions 197 cm x 132 cm, currently located at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (D.C.)

Diana the Huntress is a study of the female figure and an expression of Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality. This kind of style was the mainstay of the academic tradition. The model in the painting is Lise Tréhot, Renoir's mistress and inspiration for a number of his paintings. As is found in Renoir's early work, there is evidence of the influence of the realist painter Gustave Courbet. Though the subject is mythological, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, in which the figure was carefully observed, modeled and superimposed on a contrived landscape. Renoir just added a bow, a dead animal, and the deerskin to transform Lise into Diana, the mythological goddess of hunting. Also, Renoir used a palette knife to apply his pigments, a favorite technique of Courbet.

Diane sortant du bain, painting by François Boucher

Image: Diane sortant du bain (1742), oil on canvas painting by French painter Francois Boucher, 57 cm x 73 cm, located at Musée du Louvre, Sully, Department of Paintings, 2nd floor, Room 38, Paris.

The Bath of Diana

Painting: The Bath of Diana by François Clouet (1571) oil on panel, dimensions 78 cm x 110 cm.