Danaë (after Titian)
John James Rouby (Plymouth 1750- Rome 1812)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1792
Materials
Paper
Measurements
620 x 880 mm
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730941
Summary
Bistre on paper, Danaë (after Titian) by John James Rouby (Plymouth 1750- Rome 1812). The original painting was in the palazzo of the King of Naples at Capo di Monte and is now in the museum there. According to mythology Danaë, daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos, was imprisoned in a tower by her father because of a prophecy that her son would kill him. In the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses he tells of the God Jupiter coming to her as a shower of gold. Their offspring was Perseus, who indeed accidentally killed his grandfather with a discus.
Makers and roles
John James Rouby (Plymouth 1750- Rome 1812), engraver (printmaker) after Titian (Pieve di Cadore 1488/90 - Venice 1576), artist