Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Persea quem pluvio Danae conceperat auro // [Perseus whom Danae conceived with a golden shower].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 06/GC077/Half Folio/18th c. GA 2012.01419
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc79408b55r
Publisher
Paris : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1662-1757
Extent
1 item ; sheet 47.7 x 53.7 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings
Depiction: Mythological scene. Danae reclining on a bed, being prepared to receive Jupiter.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Antonius de Alegris Corrigiensis pinxit".
Signed in plate, lower right: "G. Du Change sculpsit".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Dessine a Rome par Pierre de Pietri, d'apres le tableau qui est dans la gallerie de l'Altesse du Prince Don [illegible] Odescalchi Duc de Bracciano [illegible].
Signed in plate, lower right: "Se vend a Paris rue Pavee Montorgueil a la Renommee chez du Pre, et en plus petit grave par E. Desrochers".

Discovery Information

Subject
Cherubs (Art)
Zeus (Greek deity)—Art
Danae (Greek mythology) in art
Gods, Greek, in art
Mythology, Greek, in art
Goddesses, Greek, in art
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses—Illustrations
Latin poetry—Illustrations
Latin literature—Illustrations
Art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6cbedba0-894b-4be5-a2c2-04b8ecaf2c2e/manifest