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Object Type
Museum number: 1869,0410.1814
Title: Object: Danae
Description: Nude female figure standing on a couch covered with flowers, and looking at her righteflection in a mirror held by a torch-bearing, winged figure at top r; lettered proof. 1824 Lithograph, on chine collé
Producer name: Print made by: Hyacinthe Louis Victor Jean Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte; After: Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson; Published by: Francisque Noël & Cie; Printed by: Francisque Noël & Cie
School/style
Production date: 1824
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 478 millimetres (image); Width: 349 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: According to Beraldi this print was so successful that 600 impressions were sold in two days. An impression was included in Duchesne's display of the art of the print in the BN in 1823 (see McAllister Johnson on early lithograph, p.139).
Bibliographic references: Beraldi 1885-92 / Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle (see p.71); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (see vol. I p.215)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca; Purchased through: Sotheby's (24-7.ii.1869/573); Purchased through: Edward Daniell
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1869
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1869,0410.1814

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