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Leda and the Swan

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Leda and the Swan

Jean-Jacques Feuchère

ca. 1840–50

Medium

Bronze

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Dimensions

Height: 6 13/16 in. (17.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Walter M. Carlebach, 1969

Classification

Sculpture-Bronze

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

French

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Jacques Feuchère

1807–1852 • France

Feuchère was the primary artist working in small-scale, domestic sculpture in the first half of the 19th century. His statuettes are rendered in a variety of historical styles, though he preferred a Renaissance idiom. Feuchère was involved in many of the sculptural projects of the July Monarchy. He is also noted for the private art collection he amassed; it included paintings by such Italian masters as Leonardo and Raphael, as well as paintings by Dutch masters and contemporary French artists.

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