£30
Robinet Testard (fl. 1470-1531), heliogravure in colour and gold, La Chambre Rouge des Danaides, 30cm x 19.5cm, heliogravure by Draeger Freres for Revue
Verve 5-6, Paris 1939, mounted, glazed and framed. In Greek mythology the fifty daughters of Danaus were ordered by him to kill their husbands on their wedding
night. However, one, Hypermnestra, spared her husband as he respected her wish to remain a virgin. Here, the fifty virgins are reduced to six, with Hypermnestra seen on the left
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