Frame for "Ignorance Defeated" Etcher: Antonio Fantuzzi (Italian, active 1537–1550)
After: Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) (Italian, 1494–1540)

ca. 1542–1543

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

This etching reproduces the stucco design surrounding the fresco of Danae in the Gallery of Francis I at the château of Fontainebleau. Here, however, the central scene differs from that at the château and instead depicts a peaceful landscape and a fortified city. Some scholars believe that this landscape represents the place where the mythological princess Danae resided and gave birth to her son Perseus.

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 10 1/2 × 17 3/16 in. (26.6 × 43.6 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2017.131.2

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

16th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Michael Hall
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 39
  • Catherine Jenkins, Prints at the Court of Fontainebleau, c. 1542–47, 3 vols. (Belgium: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2017), vol. 2, p. 175, no. AF 35, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

architecture, etchings, mythology, nudes (representations), townscapes

Subject

putti statues

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