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- Title:
Leda and the Swan
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Brown wash, graphite, gouache, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (16.5 × 21.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in graphite, lower right: "4499 and L.R.: 4499/ Isaac/ Oliver/ Ex. Coll./ Sir T. Lawrence"; inscribed in pen and black ink on mount lower center: "The man from whom/ bought this, said that he cut the mount because there was an old inscription upon it, "J Olliver", which he/ thought would be detrimental to the drawing - T. E. Lowinsky -"; on verso in graphite, upper center: "4499/ Isaac. Oliver"
Collector's mark: Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6042
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- curtain | lust | nudes | putti | religious and mythological subject | swan | woman
- Associated People:
- Leda
Zeus - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11290
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]