Ewer Basin with Leda and the Swan
In the center roundel of this basin Zeus, the king of the gods here disguised as a swan, makes love to the nymph Leda. As described in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book 6), Leda later gave birth to twin boys Castor and Pollux, also represented in the scene. One of the twins crawls o...
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F. Spitzer Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 1117]; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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