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Leda and the Swan in a Landscape

1500–1510

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The story

Palumba engraved Leda twice, and this first version sets the lovers in a landscape. He signed his prints IB with a little bird, a pun on palumbo, Italian for pigeon, and his name was only confirmed in 1936, when a Vatican manuscript was found that identified him through his Leda.

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Object details

Title: Leda and the Swan in a Landscape
Artist: Giovanni Battista Palumba
Date: 1500–1510
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Engraving, partly hand coloured
Object type: Prints
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0531
Original image: 2088 × 3000 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Giovanni Battista Palumba. Leda and the Swan in a Landscape. 1500–1510. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0531/