Danaë

ca. between 1705 and 1715

Paolo de Matteis Italian, 1662-1728

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Title Danaë

Artwork Date ca. between 1705 and 1715

Artist Paolo de Matteis

Life Dates 1662-1728

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas mounted on masonite (tm)

Dimensions Unframed: 38 3/16 × 49 5/16 inches (97 × 125.2 cm) Framed: 44 1/4 × 58 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (112.4 × 147.6 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gruber

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 79.140

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collection of Mr. & Mrs. Lester Gruber (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Schleier, E. "Paolo de Matteis e non Marchesini, Trevisani o Amigoni," Paragone, vol. 30, no. 355. (September 1979): pp. 66-70 [general discussion w/o mentioning DIA picture].

Kilinski, K., II. Classical Myth in Western Art: Ancient Through Modern. Exh. cat., Southern Methodist University, Meadows Museum and Gallery, Amarillo Art Center. Dalls/Amarillo, 1985-1986, pp. 40-41, cat. 8 (repr.).

Spinosa, N. Pittura napoletana del settecento dal Barocco al Rococò. Naples, 1986, pp. 133, no. 125, 257 [as c. 1710].

A Taste for Angels, Neapolitan Painting in North America 1650-1750. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 1987, p. 238, (fig. 103).

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Kunstforum der Bank Austria—Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, "Barock in Neapel, Kunst zur Zeit der österreichischen Vizekönige" ("Settecento Napoletano, Sulle ali dell'aquila imperiale 1707-1734"), 1993/1994, pp. 150-151, cat. 9, color repr. (entry by Nicolas Spinosa).

Bissell, R. W., Derstine, A. and Miller, D. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 11, 132-33 (cat. no. 42, entry by A. Derstine).

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 101.

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Paolo de Matteis, Danaë, ca. between 1705 and 1715, oil on canvas mounted on Masonite (TM). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gruber, 79.140.