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Leda and the Swan
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Leda and the Swan

Heinrich Lossow
undated
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The story

Heinrich Lossow showed respectable mythologies such as Boreas and Orithyia and The Sphinx and the Poet, yet in his spare time he was a prolific pornographer. His Leda sits right where those two sides of his work meet.

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Object details

Title
Leda and the Swan
Artist
Heinrich Lossow
Date
undated
Culture
German
Medium
Oil on panel
Object type
Paintings
Collection
Private collection (sold at Neumeister, Munich)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.0479
Original image
1255 × 1535 px
Source record
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License evidence
See the license

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