Description:
A Very Fine and Large Italian 18th/19th Century Old Master School Oil on Cavas Titled "Leda and The Swan". Leda and the Swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. As the story goes, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband, King Tyndareus. Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance. Many artists have their own representative paintings of 'Leda and the Swan. Circa: Florence, Italy 1800.
1. Within a gildwood frame.
2. The canvas has been professionaly stretched, religned and cleaned.
Canvas Height: 59 1/4 inches (150.5 cm)
Canvas Width: 74 1/4 inches (188.6 cm)
Frame Height: 65 3/4 inches (167 cm)
Frame Width: 81 1/4 inches (206.3 cm)
Ref.: A1355
