# Leda with the Swan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORREGGIO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 152 x 191 cm ## Commentary Leda is playing in the stream with her maidens, and receives the embrace of the swan-god. Beautiful as the treatment is, it is decidedly voluptuous, and so incensed the pious zeal of Louis, son of the Regent at Paris, that he attacked it with a knife and cut off Leda's head. The present head therefore is not Correggio's but a restoration by Schlesingen. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Vices]() - [Allegory of Virtues]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Camera di San Paolo]() - [Camera di San Paolo]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(partial view\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()