Leda and the Swan

c. 1510

Giovanni Battista Palumba

Artist, Italian, active first quarter 16th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 15.6 x 12.8 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.9083

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.258, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

A. Firmin Didot (Lugt 119); J.S. Morgan (Lugt 1536); Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge (Lugt 2091); purchased 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 40-41, repro.

1966

  • Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 50.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 345, repro.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.162.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65020173

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