# Portrait of a Woman as Diana

- By: Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685–1766)
- Date: 1752
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 127.5 x 107.5 x 10 cm (50 3/16 x 42 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 100.4 x 79.5 cm (39 1/2 x 31 5/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Bequest of John L. Severance
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.643)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.643/1942.643_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

For many years, this sitter was identified as Madame de Pompadour, but she bears little resemblance to this pivotal figure in French art and politics of the mid 1700s. Nattier specialized in portraits of women in mythological guises—in this case, the bow, quiver, and leopard skin, all attributes of Diana, goddess of the hunt.