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Mademoiselle Lange as Danaë  1799

by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

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...
Size: 
23 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. (60.33 x 48.58 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Public Domain, Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art