Focus on this artwork and discuss the Symbolism.
Miss Lange is depicted gathering gold pieces in a sheet. This common scene from the shower of gold episode associated with Danae was used by Girodet to portray Mlle Lange as a greedy person. The winged putto helping her collect gold coins is Palmyre, her daughter from an affair with a banker. She is accompanied by a turkey bearing a wedding ring on its foot. This symbolizes the husband, Simons. There is an infant, representing the son, gathering peacock feathers that are growing from the turkey. The mother and the children have been adorned with headdresses fashioned out of peacock feathers.Two white doves are bound to a scale, each bearing a Latin inscription. 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. The other (Latin: constantia) is written around the neck of the bird that gotten away, suggesting once more that her character is unsteady.
In the background, a statue of Abundantia is dimly lit by a small fire that has drawn moths. At the base of the statue is yet another Latin expression (Latin: bonæ spei et. laribus sacrum).
Additionally, the four corners of the frame have been decorated with ornate cameo reliefs, each bearing Latin phrases or mottos:			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
Her mirror, now broken and producing no reflection is an attribute of Vanitas used together with the mermaid.
On the floor, a scroll of the play ASINARIA COMŒDIA as per PLAVTI is set ablaze upon her sandal.
Another lover of Miss Lange, removed from her pedestal, is depicted in the shadowy area below Danae's seat. 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. A snail rests upon one of its leaves.  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.The foot supporting Miss Lange's seat has been splintered, and is stabilized by a brick. A mouse, caught in a trap, is seen next to the face of the illegitimate marquis of Beauregard.
scale putto Vanitas Abundantia satyr ASINARIA COMŒDIA Danae Girodet PLAVTI cameo foot fidelitas drawn moths