Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan

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According to ancient Greek mythology Leda, the wife of the Spartan King Tyndaerus, was seduced by the king of the gods, Zeus who had taken the form of a swan. On the same night Leda also had sex with her husband and from these two unions produced two sets of brother and sister twins, one set human, Castor and Clytemnestra, and the other immortal, Helen and Polydeuces.

Lady Lever Art Gallery

Wirral

Title

Leda and the Swan

Date

1898–1900

Medium

marble, green onyx & bronze

Measurements

H 50.8 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

LL 206

Acquisition method

purchased by William Hesketh Lever, 1900

Work type

Sculpture

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