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Object number

ECL-Bm.13:1-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Statue: Leda and swan

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Finding Aid 4 notes that 'in this volume are conteind drawings of statues and busts in the Collection of ye Great Duke of Tuscany'


Description

Content (description)

Leda stands with her left foot raised on a rock. Her chiton falls loosely from her left shoulder, leaving her right side bare, and she lifts her himation in her left hand as if a veil or curtain. She holds the swan to her body with her right hand. LEDA is written below in red crayon.

Content (object)

statue
lid

Dimensions

height (actual size): 441mm
width (actual size): 294mm

Inscription

Gaetano signed in pencil directly below the drawing

Inscription description

LEDA written in large red crayon letters directly below the drawing, partially obscuring the artist's signature

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Person

Nenci, Gaetano (Artist)

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Mansuelli (I ; no. 34)
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