Augustus Saint-Gaudens considered his sculpture Diana "a labor of love." At the request of his friend the architect Stanford White, Saint-Gaudens designed this slender, lithe figure of the Roman goddess of the hunt as an eighteen-foot-high bronze weathervane for the tower of White’s Madison Square Garden, in New York. He fashioned the head after an earlier marble bust of his model and mistress, Davida Clark, showing her hair drawn back loosely in a Grecian knot. The first lighted sculpture of its time, the weathervane proved too large and heavy for the tower and was replaced with a smaller version, which remained in place until 1925. The only nude figure that Saint-Gaudens ever sculpted, Diana was also the first bronze from which he made reproductions, such as this one.