Details
- Artist Name: School of Fontainebleau (French, 16th century)
- Title: Danae Sleeping
- Date: 16th century
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 34-3/8 x 48-1/2 in. (87.3 x 123.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1979.47.P
- Copyright: ©Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
(sale, Versailles, Palais de Congrès, 23 May 1976, lot 30, as Ecole de Fontainebleau, fin du XVI siècle-debut du XVII siècle, Le Sommeil de Danae, to);
[Sylvia Blatas, Paris, buying for];
Norton Simon, Los Angeles, N.76.27.1.P., gift 1979 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
[Sylvia Blatas, Paris, buying for];
Norton Simon, Los Angeles, N.76.27.1.P., gift 1979 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
[on loan]
- New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1976-08 to 1977-03
- Béguin, Sylvie, La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, pp. 304-305
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1362 p. 398
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