King Acrisius of Argos has locked away his daughter, Danäe, so that she can not produce a male heir and fulfill a prophecy that her son would slay her father and rule over the realm. Danäe, however, is visited by the god Jupiter, who comes to her in the form of a shower of light or gold, depicted by Wierix not as immaterial rays of light, but rather as gold coins. The inclusion of an old woman assisting the nude Danäe, along with the imagery of coins, follow the Northern Baroque trope of the courtesan and procuress, cloaking this ancient myth in early modern iconography of sex work. (SR)