Sujet

Painted Fire Screen, 1700. Creator: Jacques Vigoureux Duplessis.

Légende

Painted Fire Screen, 1700. Originally mounted as a screen to cover a fireplace during warm weather, in this exotic painting the artist has transformed the hearth into a miniature stage. Three fanciful Chinese characters hold aloft a circular screen on which is depicted the mythological story of Zeus showering Danaë with gold. A pair of figures, painted in grisaille on the side wall, incise their names on a tree trunk, a motif symbolizing eternal love. The fire screen is the earliest recorded work of Vigoureux Duplessis, an artist who was associated with decorative projects for the Paris Opera, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory.

Date

1700

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B21_433

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,4Mo (3,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,3cm / 4960 x 3695 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe religious arts painting country French France religion China art Chinese continent museum European color stage screen deity God characters representation location century character concept mythology representative zeus Colour Greek mythology 18th century Eighteenth Century fire screen firescreen stage curtain Danae Walters Art Museum Heritage Art oil on fabric Danaë Danäe god of the sky Jacques Vigoureux Duplessis Jacques Vigouroux-Duplessis Vigouroux-Duplessis Jacques Vigoureux-Duplessis Jacques Jacques Vigoureux-Duplessis Duplessis Jacques Vigoureux Fireplace Screen