Leda en de zwaan, Jean-Augustin Léveillé, after François Boucher, 1776 - 1802

Title(s)

Leda en de zwaan

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1984-180

Catalogue reference

• Jean-Richard 1395

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘No. 607’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Leda, ondersteund door een jonge vrouw, stapt in een fontein met Jupiter vermomd als zwaan. Amor sproeit water over hen heen.

Artist

• print maker: Jean-Augustin Léveillé (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: François Boucher (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Gilles Antoine Demarteau (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
publisher: Paris

Dating

1776 - 1802

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 300 mm × width 256 mm

What

• Jupiter, in the shape of a swan, and Leda

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1984

Copyright

Public domain

• L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, p. 335, cat.nr. 1395