# Leda and the Swan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 65 x 81 cm ## Commentary The great popularity of Michelangelo's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/2paintin/2leda.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/2paintin/2leda.html">Leda and the Swan</a> remmained undiminished in the Broque period. Among the evidence of this are the copies by in Cambridge and Dresden. Rubens was a great admirer of Michelangelo's monumental, powerfully expressive figural compositions. During his stay in Italy he made copies of Michelangelo's frescoes, sculptures as well as some of his drawings. ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()