File:0 Léda et le cygne - Cornelis Bos - British Museum.JPG

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Leda and the Swan  wikidata:Q111336430 reasonator:Q111336430
Artist
Cornelis Bos  (fl. 1530–1555)  wikidata:Q5171219
 
Alternative names
Cornelis Bosch, Cornelis Bus, Cornelis Sylvius, Cornelis Willem Claussone
Description Southern Netherlandish drawer, printmaker, printer and publisher
Date of birth/death circa 1506-1510 before 7 May 1555
date QS:P,+1555-05-07T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1555-05-07T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death 's-Hertogenbosch Groningen
Work period from 1525 until 1555
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Rome, Antwerp (1537-1544), Groningen (1544-1555)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5171219
After Michelangelo  (1475–1564)  wikidata:Q5592 s:en:Author:Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni q:en:Michelangelo
 
After Michelangelo
Alternative names
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Description Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet and inventor
Date of birth/death 6 March 1475 Edit this at Wikidata 18 February 1564 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Caprese Michelangelo Rome
Work period from 1487 until 1564
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1487-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Florence (1487–1494), Bologna (1494–1496), Rome (1496–1501), Florence (1501–1505), Rome (1505–1506), Florence (1506–1508), Rome (1508–1516), Florence (1516–September 1529), Venice (September 1529–November 1529), Florence (November 1529–1532), Rome (1532–1533), Florence (1533), Rome (November 1533), Florence (1533–August 1534), Rome (1534–1564)
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q5592
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Title
Leda and the Swan
label QS:Lit,"Leda col cigno"
label QS:Lfr,"Léda et le cygne"
label QS:Lsv,"Leda och svanen"
label QS:Lpl,"Leda z łabędziem"
label QS:Lru,"Леда и лебедь"
label QS:Lde,"Leda und der Schwan"
label QS:Lpt,"Leda e o Cisne"
label QS:Len,"Leda and the Swan"
label QS:Les,"Leda y el cisne"
Object type engraving Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Leda is entwined with Jupiter, disguised as a swan, with a large egg at lower left
Date from 1530 until 1550
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 30.2 cm (11.8 in); width: 40.1 cm (15.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,30.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,40.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
not on view
Accession number
1874.0808.332
Exhibition history The Europe of Rubens, Louvre-Lens, 22 May 2013–23 September 2013
Inscriptions

Signature bottom left [Michael Angelus Inventor. CB]

Caption bottom center [Formosa haec Leda est, cignus fit Juppiter illam/ Comprimit, hoc geminum quis credat parturit ovum,/ Ex illo gemini pollux, cum castore fratres,/ Ex isto erumpens Helene pulcherrima prodit.]
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photography by User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT 2013

This illustration was made by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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Other versions
English: version in reverse of that described by Schele as 59a. Since it is also signed by Bos, it appears to be a replica made by himself (Shele decribes on p.138 four copies, none of which is this print). For another impression in reverse see 1930,U.1435. For impressions in the direction described by Shele see 1878,0713.161 and 1928,0313.85.
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