A CARVED MARBLE GROUP OF LEDA AND THE SWAN

SPANISH, 1809

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A CARVED MARBLE GROUP OF LEDA AND THE SWAN
SPANISH, 1809
On an integrally carved rectangular marble base and a grey rectangular marble plinth; signed and dated on the rockwork 'Michelangelus/Burgo/faciebat/Ao.1809'.
One corner repaired.
12 in. (31 cm.) high

拍品专文

This sculpture shows Leda, the wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, in the embrace of Jupiter in the shape of a swan. Jupiter was in love with Leda and under the disguise of a swan seduced her, the union resulting in the birth from an egg (or perhaps two) of the twins Castor and Pollux and Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.