Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson / Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae / 1799

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson
Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae
1799
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Creator Name: Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1767 - 1824
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson
Title: Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1799
Creation End Date: 1799
Creation Date: 1799
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: oil on canvas
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.25-1/2 x W.21-1/4 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 69.22
Credit Line: The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

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. Danaë 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.

AMICA ID: MIA_.69.22
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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