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Maker(s):Brush, George de Forest
Culture:American (1855-1941)
Title:Leda and the Swan
Date Made:1883
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on panel
Measurements:Panel: 14 3/4 x 11 15/16 in; 37.5 x 30.3 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1969.73
Credit Line:Gift of Herbert W. Plimpton: The Hollis W. Plimpton (Class of 1915) Memorial Collection
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
history; classical subject

Label Text:
In the same year in which his images of American Indians first captured public attention, Brush painted this scene from classical mythology, showing Zeus, disguised as a swan, seducing Leda, Queen of Sparta. Later, she will lay two eggs, one containing her twin children Helen of Troy and Pollux, conceived with Zeus, and another bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, conceived with her husband. Once owned by the architect Stanford White, this painting later belonged to the pioneering American art collector William T. Evans.
EEB, 2008

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