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Aegina Visited by Jupiter
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805)
Original Dimensions: 57 7/8" x 77 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1767–69) "Greuze insisted on submitting a painting to the French Royal Academy that would gain him entry as a history painter, resulting in numerous false starts including this ambitious but unfinished canvas. It evokes the goddess Danaë, but may represent Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus, who was visited by Jupiter and carried off by him in the form of an eagle. In 1767 Greuze wrote to the art critic Denis Diderot that he "should very much like to paint a woman totally nude without offending modesty," perhaps in reference to this work. A few years later Greuze finally submitted a different subject, Septimius Severus and Caracalla (1769; Musée du Louvre, Paris), which despite its aspirations failed to earn him the status of history painter." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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