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At the end of the 18th century, Alexandre Lenoir attributed the Diana from the château of Anet, Eure-et-Loire, sometimes identified as Diane de Poitiers, to Jean Goujon. It is impossible that Goujon, burdened as he was by his responsibilities in Paris, could have worked at the château of Anet, which was begun in 1548 and completed in 1555 by Philibert Delorme.
Goujon's style has wrongly been seen as a slow but continuous progression from a Mannerism influenced by Parmigianino to a classicism influenced by antique models. It has also been common to attribute indiscriminately to him any elegant female figure of the period, most notably the famous marble group of Diana with a Stag. This work is more likely to be by Germain Pilon, who dominated French sculpture in the second half of the 16th century.
The statue type itself was established in France by Cellini in 1543 at Fontainebleau.
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