![]() ![]() Studies of Leda and a Horse, black chalk, brush and ink on paper, 1503 - 1507, Royal Library, Windsor 1503 - 1507, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Study for kneeling Leda, black chalk, pen and ink on paper, 126 x 109 cm. ![]() 1503 - 1507, Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth Leda and the Swan, pen and ink and wash over black chalk on paper, 160 x 139 mm. Instead Leonardo devoted all his attention to the most complicated of hairstyles, with dense whorls and woven plaits, even studying the head from the back - quite unnecessarily for a painted image." - Description from Leo's sketches of Leda: In the four surviving studies of Leda's head, Leonardo expended little effort on her expression, simply adopting the usual downward glance in the central two drawings he may even have left the face blank, for the faces there are of poor quality and may have been 'filled in' by a pupil. Leonardo worked on two compositions of the subject, finally executing a painting that was destroyed in the eighteenth century. ![]() "The mythical Leda was seduced by Jupiter in the form of a swan. ![]() He supposedly painted or at least planned to paint two different versions. We have a few sketches by his own hand and many copies of the actual painting by others. This is another lost painting by Leonardo. ![]()
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