id: 145463 accession number: 1971.101 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.101 updated: 2025-02-09 03:33:02.290000 Danaë, c. 1623. Orazio Gentileschi (Italian, 1563–1639). Oil on canvas; framed: 202.5 x 270 x 9 cm (79 3/4 x 106 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 162 x 228.5 cm (63 3/4 x 89 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1971.101 title: Danaë title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1623 creation date earliest: 1618 creation date latest: 1628 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Orazio Gentileschi (Italian, 1563–1639) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 202.5 x 270 x 9 cm (79 3/4 x 106 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 162 x 228.5 cm (63 3/4 x 89 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). title: Van Dyck. Grande pittura e Collezionismo a Genova opening date: 1997-03-22T00:00:00 Van Dyck. Grande pittura e Collezionismo a Genova. Palazzo Ducale, Venice (March 22-July 13, 1997). title: Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi opening date: 2001-10-15T00:00:00 Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (October 15, 2001-January 20, 2002); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 11-May 12, 2002); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (June 15-September 15, 2002). title: Caravage et le Caravagisme européen opening date: 2012-06-22T00:00:00 Caravage et le Caravagisme européen. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (organizer) (June 22-October 14, 2012). title: Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy opening date: 2012-11-11T00:00:00 Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (November 11, 2012-February 10, 2013); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (March 4-June 16, 2013). title: Variations: The Reuse of Models in Paintings by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi opening date: 2021-04-11T04:00:00 Variations: The Reuse of Models in Paintings by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 11-August 28, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, 1971/72: "Caravggio and His Followers," cat. no. 32, pp. 103-105, colorplate 32 (catalogue by Richard E Spear). (Revised edition, cat. no. 32, p. 103, repr. p. 105 (black & white)).', 'opening_date': '1972-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Rome, Museo del Palazzo di Venezia (October 15, 2001-January 6, 2002); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 11-May 12, 2002); Saint Louis Museum of Art (June 15-September 15, 2002). "Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi.", exh. cat. no. 41, pp. 193-195.', 'opening_date': '2002-02-11T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Possibly Charles Spencer, Fifth Earl of Sunderland (1706-1758); date: footnotes: citations: Private collection, England; date: footnotes: citations: Hazlitt Gallery (London, England], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972): 3-46. page number: Reproduced: p.12 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152412 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n155 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 346-348; Reproduced: p. 347 url: Patrice Marandel, J., ed. Caravaggio and His Legacy. Los Angeles, CA: Prestel, 2012. page number: Mentioned: p. 58; Reproduced: p. 59 url: Musée Fabre. Caravage et le Caravagisme europée. Montpellier, France. page number: ex. cat. no. 17, p. 124-125. url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: October 2016 through February 2017. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016 page number: p. 8-9 url: Bissell, R. Ward, Laura Muti and Daniele De Sarno Prignano. Orazio Gentileschi: Cristo Deriso. Faenza: Edit Faenza, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 20 url: Korkow, Cory, and Marcia Steele. Variations: The Reuse of Models in Paintings by Orazio & Artemisia Gentileschi. Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced throughout url: Korkow, Cory. “The Gentileschi Variations.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 12-15. page number: Reproduced: P. 12; Mentioned: P. 12, 15. url: Steele, Marcia. “Unlocking an Old Master: Conservation of Orazio Gentileschi's 'Danaë' reveals the artist's genius once again.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 44-45. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 44-45. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.101/1971.101_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.101/1971.101_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.101/1971.101_full.tif