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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.189
People
Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)
Title
Danaë Watching the Building of the Brazen Tower
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Danaë and the Brazen Tower
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1872
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230455

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
17.8 x 26 cm (7 x 10 1/4 in.)
framed: 32.5 x 39.5 cm (12 13/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: E B J

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Burne-Jones, sold; to William Graham, 1872, sold [through his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, April 3, 1886, no. 155]; to Robert Henry Benson, Sussex [via Thomas Agnew and Sons, London], sold; through [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 21, 1929, no. 95]; to [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, January 6, 1930, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.189
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, a Poem, Roberts Brothers (Boston, MA, 1869), p. 218
  • Malcolm Bell, Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1892), chronology p. 109
  • Paul Leprieur, "La Legende de Persée, peinture de M. Burne-Jones", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (December 1, 1893), vol. X, no. 6, pp. 462-477, p. 468
  • William Morris, The Doom of King Acrisius, R. H. Russell (New York, NY, 1902), p. 2
  • Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones (2 vols.) (London, England, 1904), vol. II, p. 30
  • Fortunée De Lisle, Burne-Jones, Methuen & Co. (London, England, 1906), pp. 134-136, 182, 184
  • Ancient and Modern Pictures...of R. H. Benson, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, June 21, 1929), no. 95
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p. 31, no. 20
  • René Huyghe, L'Art et l'Homme, Librairie Larousse (Paris, France, 1961), repr. no. 1008
  • Marcel Brion, Art of the Romantic Era, Praeger (New York, NY, 1966), p. 89, no. 79, ill.
  • John Christian, Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1975), p. 62-63, under no. 177
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography, Michael Joseph, Ltd. (London, England, 1975), pp. 147-148
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 76, color plate; pp. 100, 157, repr. b/w cat. no. 67
  • Bill Waters, Burne-Jones: A Quest for Love, exh. cat., Peter Nahum (London, England, 1993), mentioned under no. 26, a Study for Danae, p. 58
  • Stephen Wildman and John Christian, Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1998), p. 267
  • Oliver Garnett, "The Letters and Collection of William Graham: Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector", The Sixty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society, The Walpole Society (Leeds, 2000), pp. 145-343, repr. in b/w as fig. 119
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), pp. 150-151, cat. #41, color repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 158, pp. 366-367, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 158, pp. 378-379, repr. in color
  • Andrea Wolk Rager, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press (New Haven, 2022), pp. 151-153, repr. as fig. 98 on p.152

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, New Gallery, London, 12/31/1898 - 04/08/1899
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1980 - 07/15/1980
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2015 - 11/10/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2016 - 04/21/2017

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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