Diana with Cupid and a Dog is a signed work by the noted early-18th-century Venetian sculptor Giuseppe Torretto (1661–1743). The sculpture was executed with great mastery. Despite the difference in their size the figures of Diana and the cupid complement each other as if they were conducting some silent dialogue. The lines of the folds flow in a light, almost musical manner. The face of the goddess is pleasantly attractive and particularly enlivened by her restrained smile. Diana is the only recumbent statue from the Summer Gardens that has come down to us today. It was created by Torretto to Peter the Great’s commission in 1717. Like its subsequently lost companion Narcissus, it is listed in the Summer Gardens inventories of 1728, 1736 and 1771. From the mid-1930s to the early 1980s Diana graced the Hanging Garden of the Small Hermitage where it was later replaced by a copy.