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Mademoiselle Lange as Danaë
1799
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. Read more... [MIA]
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
- Size:
- 23 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. (60.33 x 48.58 cm)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Public Domain, Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
- For more:
- http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1727/portrait-of-mlle-la…
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