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The goddess Diana at the Richelieu wing

The goddess Diana at the Richelieu wing

This statue of Diana is in the image of the beautiful Diane de Poitiers. This is one of the first Renaissance nudes in France, and stood originally at the château d'Anet in the middle 1500s, where Diane lived with her husband, Louis de Brézé, lord of Anet and Grand Seneschal of Normandy. It was originally a fountain.

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