Danaë

Roman Empire
Danaë
2nd century AD
marble
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Francesco Primaticcio (designer)
Danaë
ca. 1540-50
tapestry
(woven at Fontainebleau by Jean and Pierre Le Bries)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Titian
Danaë
ca. 1560-65
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Jacopo Tintoretto
Danaë
1578
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Palma il Giovane
Danaë
ca. 1595-1600
oil on canvas
private collection

Orazio Gentileschi
Danaë and the Shower of Gold
ca. 1621-23
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Rembrandt
Danaë
1636
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

from The Princess

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white,
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk,
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers onto me.

Now lies the earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1847)

Antonio Bellucci
Danaë on the Raft
before 1726
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Jacques Vigoureux Duplessis
Painted Fire Screen
Chinoiserie Figures supporting a Tondo with Jupiter and Danaë
1700
oil on fabric
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Anonymous Painter working in London
Danaë and the Shower of Gold
ca. 1753-56
enamel on copper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

François Boucher
Study for Danaë and the Shower of Gold
before 1770
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Elias van Nijmegen
Danaë
before 1755
watercolor
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

J.F. Cazenave
Jupiter et Danaé
ca. 1790-1820
color stipple-engraving
British Museum

attributed to Bruno Braquehais
Reclining Model as Danaë
ca. 1850-60
daguerreotype (hand-colored)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York