A depiction of Danaë on a thick ivory plaque, after the famous work by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824). The young woman, imprisoned by her father, King Acrisius of Argos, in an underground chamber, is surprised at her toilette, her head raised towards the sky from which falls a fine shower of gold, a personification of Jupiter who, enamored of her, thus manages to enter the chamber and seduce her. Standing on a bed adorned with garlands of flowers, before a mirror held by an angel, she reveals the full splendor of her nudity. The frame is made of gilt bronze, chased with palmettes and lozenges.
This reproduction is reversed compared to the original, which is kept at the Museum des Bildenden Künste in Leipzig.
Girodet is undoubtedly one of the greatest painters of the 1800s. Born into a bourgeois family, he benefited from a particularly refined education, comparable to that of Parisian bourgeois. In 1783, Girodet entered the Royal Academy of Painting. The following year, at the age of seventeen, he took lessons in David's studio alongside Fabre, Gérard, Isabey, and Gros. Danaë (1798) was commissioned by Percier for the decoration of Benoît Gaudín's private mansion in Paris.
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- Reference :
- 4426
- Era:
- 19th century
- Materials:
- Ivory
