Artemisia Gentileschi · 1612
Danaë (Artemisia Gentileschi, 1612)
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Danaë asleep on a white-sheeted bed with a deep red velvet cover, her arm raised over her head, while a maid in a blue bodice and white headcloth holds out a cloth to catch the shower of golden coins falling through the dark room. Oil on copper. Saint Louis Art Museum.
Up to 15.4 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Danaë (Artemisia Gentileschi, 1612)
The small copper panel appeared at a Sotheby's sale in Monaco in February 1986, sold as a work by Artemisia's father Orazio, and was bought by the Saint Louis Art Museum that August. In 1993 the museum changed the attribution to Artemisia. It is generally taken to be a self-portrait of the artist.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and she had an international clientele. Gentileschi worked as an expatriate painter in the court of Charles I of England from 1638 to 1642, but she is thought to have fled the country in the early phases of the English Civil War. Her whereabouts over the following years are unknown, but she resurfaced in Naples during 1649. Her last known letter to one of her mentors was dated to 1650 and it indicates that she was still working as an artist. Her time of death is disputed, but her last known commission was in January 1654.
All Artemisia Gentileschi prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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