# Danaë [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 165 x 203 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Bredius 474. Mythological subject. Danaë, the daughter of king Acrisius, who had been foretold peril from the hand of his grandson, was placed in a tower, under the care of her old nurse. Zeus \(Jupiter\) anamoured of Danaë penetrated to her in the shape of a golden shower of rain. Rembrandt executed this painting in 1636, but later he revised it twice as shown by the X-ray investigations. In spite of these revisions the painting remained a homogeneous composition. Danaë is frequently represented in Renaissance and Baroque painting. You can view <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&title=danae&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Depictions+of+Danaë'\)" HREF="/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&title=danae&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Depictions+of+Danaë">other depictions</A> of Danaë in the Web Gallery of Art. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 5 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/20\_cent/strauss\_danae.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Richard Strauss: Danaë's Love, Danaë's monologue</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()