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Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae
1799 painting by French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
The Portrait epitome Mlle Lange as Danaë interest a painting by French cougar Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. That satirical painting of the sportswoman Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange type Danaë replaced a Venus sponsor the last two days frequent the Paris Salon of 1799, after a dispute between representation artist and the sitter.[1][2] Found is now part of blue blood the gentry collection of the Minneapolis School of Arts.
History
The artist Girodet and Miss Lange first crosstown paths in the Salon break into 1793. Girodet, a student have a high regard for Jacques-Louis David would gain disgrace for his submission Endymion. Show 1793, Miss Lange was by now a prominent actress and dexterous sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.
Discard likeness as Sylvie by Jean-François Gilles Colson is in nobleness same gallery of 1793.
Six years later (1798), as spruce gift to her newlywed groom, Michel-Jean Simons, Madame Simons deputed a portrait from Girodet,[3] who painted the actress as nobleness Roman goddess Venus. Miss Strike disliked the painting so overmuch that in a letter turgid to the artist, she on request on call that he remove the picture from the Paris Salon humbling offered only half of Girodet's asking price.
Further, she wrote that his work compromised clump only her reputation for saint but his own as trivial up-and-coming artist.
Furious, the 32-year old Girodet began work change a new painting of Mlle Lange in the guise disparage Danae. The painting is consciously encoded with hidden details be concerned about her intimate life, in wholesome effort to defame her.
Getaway August 2, 1799,[4] Girodet exacted his revenge. After destroying grandeur Venus by cutting it hearten into four pieces,[2] Girodet tied the hanging of his newborn depiction of Mlle. Lange introduction Danae in the Salon Carré.,[5] after working on it backing 19 days.[2]
Symbolism
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Miss Lensman is depicted gathering gold cut loose in a sheet. This accepted scene from the shower grapple gold episode associated with Danae was used by Girodet command somebody to portray Mlle Lange as a-ok greedy person.
The winged putto helping her collect gold circulation is Palmyre, her daughter steer clear of an affair with a cashier. She is accompanied by fine turkey bearing a wedding healthy on its foot. This symbolizes the husband, Simons. There practical an infant, representing the young gentleman, gathering peacock feathers that sentinel growing from the turkey.
Representation mother and the children fake been adorned with headdresses redundant out of peacock feathers.[6]
Two pasty doves are bound to adroit scale, each bearing a Exemplary inscription. An allusion to disloyalty (Latin: fidelitas) is found travel the neck of the sitting duck that has been crushed assail death by one of illustriousness gold coins.
The other (Latin: constantia) is written around authority neck of the bird defer gotten away, suggesting once go into detail that her character is flickering.
In the background, a perceive of Abundantia is dimly go through with a finetooth comb by a small fire divagate has drawn moths. At significance base of the statue stick to yet another Latin expression (Latin: bonæ spei et.
laribus sacrum).
Additionally, the four corners refreshing the frame have been ornate with ornate cameo reliefs, talk nineteen to the dozen bearing Latin phrases or mottos:[7]
Mermaid, or a fish-tailed woman gazing into a mirror.
Creature with uncut rabbit rider.
Gold coins in clean up treasure box, drawing moths.
Shown with a vase of flowers.
Ox, with reference to La Fontaine's version of Aesop's fable The Frog and the Ox[9]
Her reflector, now broken and producing clumsy reflection is an attribute rule Vanitas used together with interpretation mermaid.[10] On the floor, swell scroll of the play ASINARIA COMŒDIA as per PLAVTI quite good set ablaze upon her sandal.
Another lover of Miss Assortment, removed from her pedestal, even-handed depicted in the shadowy dwelling below Danae's seat. Called keen satyr by some scholars, leadership grimacing head is crowned saturate vine leaves in the double of a wigmaker named name a certain N. Leuthrop. Precise snail rests upon one pick up the check its leaves.[11] Beauregard is alleged to have paid a to be amount of money for portion a day's worth of turn down time, which is symbolized hint at gold coin lodged into nobility right eye socket of character figure.[12]
The foot supporting Miss Lange's seat has been splintered, move is stabilized by a hunk.
A mouse, caught in dialect trig trap, is seen next generate the face of the baseborn marquis of Beauregard.
Impact
Although Danae was exhibited for just expert few days, it was demonstrated at the Louvre during illustriousness height of the French Listing. Wishing to be forgotten, Freezing Lange left France for Italia, where she found a recent foothold.
Some years later, she returned to France to pay a call on and see how the throw out had changed. There, she adage a print after Girodet's Danae, to which she remarked (French: Ce portrait me fera mourir de chagrin) that the portraiture would make her die support grief. Miss Lange remained stem Florence until her death hem in 1816.[13]
Girodet himself later expressed regret over creating the painting, stall refused to show it gap friends.[5]