Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos(?) Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1785–90

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: unframed: 39 7/8 × 50 in. (101.3 × 127 cm)
Credit Line: Associates in Fine Arts Fund
Accession Number: 1958.65
Culture: Swiss
Period: 18th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Durlacher Brothers (dealer), New York; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1958

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 147, fig. 1958.65

Jean Starobinski, 1789, The Emblems of Reason (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1982)

Gert Schiff, L'opera completa di Füssli (Milan: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1977), no. 87, fig. 87

Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741–1825 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1973), 193, 496, no. 756, fig. 756

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Katherine Neilson, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 50, ill.

Henry H. Hawley, Neo-classicism: style and motif, exh. cat. (Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964), no. 118, ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

canvas, human figures (visual works), oil paint

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