Figure 6 Many of Renoir's most ambitious figure paintings abruptly brought Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Diana, 1867. Oil on can- together traditional and overtly contemporary elements. Diana [FIGURE 6], vas, 199.5 X 129.5 cm rejected by the Salon jury in 1867, is a fusion—perhaps an awkward one— (77 x 51V4 in.). Washington, National between the imagery of the classical goddess, with her attributes of a bow and a Gallery of Art, Chester Dale Collection, dead stag, and the fleshy, unidealized figure type familiar from the nudes of 1963.10.205. © 1997 Gourbet. In Bather with a Griffon [FIGURE 7], exhibited in 1870, a standing female Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, nude, again reminiscent of Gourbet, assumes a pose suggestive of the antique Washington. Venus pudica. Her hand shields her sex; her fashionable contemporary clothes are 10