Lot 120: JACQUES BLANCHARD PARIS 1600 - 1638

DANAE

measurements note
36 1/2 by 65 in.; 92.7 by 165 cm.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, December 8, 1989, lot 82.

LITERATURE

Serre-Leegenhoek, Maîtres anciens du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1990, p. 39-40, reproduced fig. 3;
J. Thuillier, Jacques Blanchard 1600-1638, Rennes 1998, under cat. no. 22, no. 3.

NOTE

This painting, by Blanchard with some possible studio assistance, is one of three versions of this subject by the artist. One is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and the other is in the Pushkin Palace, Tsarkoe-Selo (see J. Thuillier, Literature below).

This painting was also engraved by Nicolas de La Court around 1639-1642 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris).