The Portrait of Mlle Lange as Danaë is a painting by French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

This satirical painting of the actress Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange as Danaë replaced a Venus for the last two days of the Paris Salon of 1799, after a dispute between the artist and the sitter.

This common scene from the shower of gold episode associated with Danae was used by Girodet to portray Mlle Lange as a greedy person.

An allusion to adultery (Latin: fidelitas) is found around the neck of the bird that has been crushed to death by one of the gold coins.

Additionally, the four corners of the frame have been decorated with ornate cameo reliefs, each bearing Latin phrases or mottos:[7] Her mirror, now broken and producing no reflection is an attribute of Vanitas used together with the mermaid.

Called a satyr by some scholars, the grimacing head is crowned by vine leaves in the likeness of a wigmaker named after a certain N. Leuthrop.

[11] Beauregard is said to have paid a lot amount of money for half a day's worth of her time, which is symbolized with gold coin lodged into the right eye socket of the figure.

There, she saw a print after Girodet's Danae, to which she remarked (French: Ce portrait me fera mourir de chagrin) that the painting would make her die of grief.