Title: Danae with a Nursemaid (Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Date work started: 1560
Date work completed: 1565
Place created: Venice
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Sequence: Itinerary 1 of 7
Owner Name: Titian
In possession from: 1560 to 1565
Location: Casa Grande, Venice
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Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, ed., "Late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting." Exh. cat. Venice: Marsilio, 2008, pp. 205-207, cat. no. 2.2.
Wethey, Harold. The Paintings of Titian, III (1975), pp. 135-136, cat. no. 7.
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Sequence: Itinerary 2 of 7
Owner Name: Cardinal Alessandro Peretti di Montalto
In possession from: Unknown to 1600
Location: Rome
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A letter dated July 27 1600 from Cardinal Montalto in Rome to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague contains Montalto's news that he is sending a Danae by Titian to the Emperor as a gift; by August 21 the Emperor wrote to Montalto that the painting was received.
Volltelini (1898), p. xvi, nos. 16, 184, and 16, 185.
Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 3 : The Mythological and Historical Paintings, (London: Phaidon, 1975) p. 135.
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Sequence: Itinerary 3 of 7
Owner Name: Emperor Rudolf II
In possession from: 1600 to 1612
Location: Prague Castle
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Sequence: Itinerary 4 of 7
Owner Name: Hapsburgs
In possession from: 1612 to 1723
Location: Prague Castle
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Sequence: Itinerary 5 of 7
Owner Name: Hapsburgs
In possession from: 1723 to Unknown
Location: Stallburg Castle, Vienna
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Inferred from historical patterns of ownership noted from current website data. "Danae with a Nursemaid" appears in the Prague Castle inventories of 1638 and 1718; sources agree that it moved to Vienna in 1723. It is possible that it followed the trajectory of "Christ and the Adultress," "Madonna and Child with Saints Stephen, Jerome, and Maurice," "Bust of Christ," "Portrait of Francesco Filetto and Son" and other paintings in the Hapsburg collection between 1600-1800 from Stallburg Castle, Belvedere Palace, to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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Sequence: Itinerary 6 of 7
Owner Name: Hapsburgs
In possession from: Unknown to Unknown
Location: Belvedere Palace
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Sequence: Itinerary 7 of 7
Owner Name: Kunsthistorisches Museum
In possession from: Unknown to Present
Location: Vienna
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Useful links:
- http://bilddatenbank.khm.at/viewArtefact?id=1946 by Ariel Green