Danae Receiving the Golden Shower
1757
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
red, white, and black chalk with gouache
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 31.5 x 48 cm (12 3/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
support: 39.1 x 55 cm (15 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1963.15.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Ananoff 1966, no. 732
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jean Claude Francois Perrin, marquis de Cypierre [1727- 1789]; (sale, Paris, 10 March 1845, no. 174);[1] Etienne Arago [1802- 1892] (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 8-9 February 1872, no. 112). Ludwig Neumann, London. Richard Owen, Paris; Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art
[1] Possibly the drawing was owned by Monsieur de Montulle and was on sale in Paris, 22-30 December 1783 as cited in François Boucher in North American collections: 100 drawings, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, 1973. However, in the sale catalogue of that date the drawing could not be found.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1966
Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessine de Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Paris, 1966.
1973
Slatkin 1973, 76.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: dK506, fig.283.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1081, color repro.
Inscriptions
in unknown hand, lower left: f.Boucher 1757
Wikidata ID
Q64569743