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Hendrick Goltzius
The Sleeping Danaë Being Prepared for Jupiter1603

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Oil painting of a nude reclining woman surrounded by winged putti, two older clothed figures, and scattered gold coins and luxury objects, with a coral-red draped curtain at right
Oil painting of a reclining nude woman on white satin drapery, eyes closed, surrounded by putti, two cloaked figures offering a golden bowl, scattered coins, a jeweled chest, and gilt vessels at lower right, with red curtains and dramatic cloudy sky behind.
Artist or Maker
Hendrick Goltzius
Northern Netherlands, 1558-1617
Title
The Sleeping Danaë Being Prepared for Jupiter
Date Made
1603
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 68 1/4 × 78 3/4 in. (173.36 × 200.03 cm) Framed: 80 × 90 × 3 1/2 in. (203.2 × 228.6 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.84.191
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Bartholomeus Ferreris, Leiden, by 1604. Hendrick Ferreris, possibly Leiden, after 1622. Jeronimus Tonneman (1688–1750), Amsterdam; his mother, Maria Tonneman (née van Breusegom; d. 1752), by descent to; heirs of Maria van Breusegom (sale, Amsterdam, De Leth, 21 Oct. 1754, lot 6, to); Gerret Braamcamp (1699–1771), Amsterdam (sale, Amsterdam, De Bosch, 4 June 1766, lot 1, bought in); Gerret Braamcamp (sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley, De Bosch, Ploos van Amstel, De Winter and Yver, 31 July 1771, lot 66, to); Jan Lucas van der Dussen (1724–1773), Amsterdam (sale, Amsterdam, Hendriksz. et al., 31 Oct. 1774, lot 4, to); [Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726–1799), Amsterdam]. Johann Christian Berens (1729–1792), Riga, ca. 1774–78, sold to; Peter von Biron (1724–1800), Duke of Courland, Schloss Sagan, Silesia, by 12 July 1778, by descent to his daughter; Dorothea Biron of Courland (1793–1862), by 1845, by descent to; Louis, duc de Talleyrand, Valençay et Sagan (1811–1898), Paris (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 2 Dec. 1899, lot 31, to); [Mr. Brugas]. Vicomte Chabert de Vatolla, Paris, by 1912. England, private collection. Art market, Zurich, by 1914. [Fritzes, Stockholm]. Claës Adolf Tamm (d. 1940), Stockholm, from 1917. (Sale, Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, 4 Oct 1933, lot 37, sold to); [Harry Runnqvist, Stockholm]. (Sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 11–12 Apr. 1935, lot 80, to); [M. Nordgren (d. 1964), Stockholm]. [Suzanne’s Studio, Inc., New York, sold as "Flemish/Dutch, Shower of Gold," 1974, for $5,671 to]; Eugene Allen, Los Angeles, seized for back taxes by; Internal Revenue Service (sale, San Francisco, Butterfield & Butterfield’s, 8 Nov. 1984, lot 2072, to); LACMA.


Selected Bibliography
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 3, Dutch Painting, Flemish Painting, Spanish Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.