Literature

Andreas Prater, Venus at her mirror, Munich; Berlin; London; New York, 2002, p. 42
Vanessa I. Schmid, with Julia I. Armstrong-Totten, The Orléans collection, Lewes, UK, 2018, fig. 12.3 (mirrored)

Iconclass

92B1217 Jupiter wooing Danae; she is usually lying in bed receiving a shower of gold

Other works by Correggio

The Holy Night
1522/30

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
c. 1515

Jupiter and Io
c. 1530

Leda and the Swan

Jupiter and Antiope
c. 1523