Leda and the Swan

Jacques Sarazin

ca. 1640–50 · White marble · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This statue came from the Château de Valmer, near Tours, which was built by Tomas Bonneau, a crown official, in 1645. 1980.5, loosely patterned after a late Hellenistic group in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, also echoes the composition of Sarrazin's four reliefs of the cardinal virtues executed ca. 1643-1645 for Monument of the Heart of Louis XIII.

Artist

Jacques Sarazin

Date

ca. 1640–50

Medium

White marble

Culture

French, Paris

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, C. Michael Paul Gift, and Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh and Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1980