Leda en de zwaan, Jean Marie Leroux, after Leonardo da Vinci, 1835

Title(s)

Leda en de zwaan
Léda (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1907-4328

Catalogue reference

• IFF après 1800 60-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Jean Marie Leroux (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Jean Marie Leroux (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Leonardo da Vinci (mentioned on object)

Dating

1835

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 550 mm × width 404 mm

What

• Jupiter, in the shape of a swan, and Leda
• birth of the Dioscuri: the twins, Castor and Pollux, emerge from one of Leda's eggs; simultaneously Helen, or Helen and Clytaemnestra, hatch from a second egg
• water-birds: swan

Acquisition

purchase 1907

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, dl. 14, p. 134, cat.nr. 60