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Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae, 1799 (oil on canvas)

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MNS653627
Image title
Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae, 1799 (oil on canvas)
Artist
Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne Louis (1767-1824) / French
Location
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
1799 AD (C18th AD)
Dimensions
60.3x48.6 cms
Image description

Miss Lange was a talented actress known for her beauty and wealthy lovers. Girodet had painted an earlier portrait of her that she found unflattering. When she refused to pay the agreed-upon price and insisted that the painting be removed from public view at the Paris Salon, the enraged Girodet sought revenge with this second, satirical portrait. Eighteenth-century artists sometimes portrayed people as mythological characters to highlight their virtues. Girodet inverted this convention to defame Miss Lange. Danae was one of the mortals loved by the Greek god Zeus, who transformed himself into a shower of gold and fell upon her. Girodet shows Miss Lange greedily catching the gold coins. All of the painting's details are scathingly symbolic. For example, the turkey wearing a wedding ring represents a man the actress married for his fortune. The cracked mirror denotes her inability to see herself as Girodet saw her— - a vain, adulterous, and avaricious woman.

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Photo © Minneapolis Institute of Art / The William Hood Dunwoody Fund / Bridgeman Images
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dove / bird / mythology / nudity / pride / Turkey (country) / Europe / Middle East / mythology / coins / female / vain / actress / oval / feathers / mirror / woman / headdress / satirical / gold / peacock / mocking / satire / danae / Painting / Mzpainting

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