"Danaé" lithographed by Aubry Lecompte after a work by Girodet-Trioson. Printed in Paris at F.Noel publisher, rue des deux Portes, School of Medicine. Dated 1826. This print on China applied is of a remarkable quality. 48.2 x 35.1 cm Chinese paper 67 x 50.7 cm wove paper. Good condition after usual restoration.
See : Lithography, 200 years of Art, History & Technique Domenico Porzio, general editor with the collaboration of Rosalba and Marcello Tabanelli ; essays by Jean Adhémar, Jacqueline Armingeat, Michel Melot, Fernand Mourlot, Domenico Porzio and Alain Weill ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Culverwell, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York 1983.
This lithography Danae is reproduced page 57 of this book..
