What ancient Roman statue of the huntress goddess is in the Louvre?

The ancient Roman statue of the huntress goddess in the Louvre is Diana of Versailles.

Also called Artemis with a Doe or Diana Huntress, the statue is a slightly over-life-size Roman marble copy dating to the first or second century CE. It is generally understood to reproduce a lost Greek bronze attributed to the sculptor Leochares. Diana, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Artemis, is shown striding forward with a deer, wearing a short hunting tunic and reaching toward the quiver at her shoulder.

The sculpture became one of the most prominent classical antiquities in Renaissance France. Pope Paul IV gave it to King Henry II in 1556, and it was installed at Fontainebleau before Henri IV moved it to the Louvre in 1602. Louis XIV later transferred it to Versailles; the statue returned to the Louvre during the French Revolution.

The title can mislead: “Diana of Versailles” describes its royal history, not its place of discovery. It is also not the Venus de Milo, another famous Louvre sculpture, nor the Apollo Belvedere, which is in the Vatican Museums.