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Summary

Orazio Gentileschi: Danaë  wikidata:Q22329907 reasonator:Q22329907
Artist
Orazio Gentileschi  (1563–1639)  wikidata:Q367360 q:it:Orazio Gentileschi
 
Orazio Gentileschi
Alternative names
Birth name: Orazio Lomi
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death 19 July 1563 / 1563 / 9 July 1563 Edit this at Wikidata 7 February 1639 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Pisa London
Work location
Rom, Marken, Genua, Paris, England
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q367360
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Danaë and the Shower of Gold
label QS:Len,"Danaë and the Shower of Gold"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1621 and 1623
date QS:P571,+1621-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1621-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1623-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 161.5 cm (63.5 in); width: 227.1 cm (89.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,161.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,227.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Current location
room E201
Accession number
2016.6
Object history Commissioned in 1621 by Giovanni Antonio Sauli, Genoa
By descent and inheritance in the family
Thomas P. Grange, London, by 1975
By whom sold in 1977 to Richard L. Feigen
By whom sold on 2 October 1998 to a family trust
sold at Sothebys, New York, 28 January 2016, lot 41
Exhibition history
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14 February - 12 May 2002, no. 36;
  • Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Orazio Gentileschi in Genoa: Paintings for the Palazzo Sauli, 1 October, 2002- 12 January, 2003;
  • New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May - 12 September, 2010, no. 47;
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, 2013-2015.
References Getty Center
Sothebys, New York, 28 January 2016, lot 41
Source/Photographer
Other versions
  • a similar motif by Gentileschi in the Cleveland Museum of Art
    a similar motif by Gentileschi in the Cleveland Museum of Art

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Captions

Danaë (c. 1621-23). Oil on canvas, 161.5 x 227.1 cm (63.5 x 89.4 in). Getty Center, Los Angeles

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Danaë

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current18:12, 24 December 2015Thumbnail for version as of 18:12, 24 December 20152,000 × 1,402 (763 KB)JVollenhovenSotheby's 2015 image
00:59, 13 August 2010Thumbnail for version as of 00:59, 13 August 2010956 × 640 (88 KB)Wmpearl
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