# Leda and the Swan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAFFAELLO Sanzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and ink over chalk, 310 x 192 mm ## Commentary The artist whose work had the most pronounced effect on Raphael during his first exposure to Florentine art was Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo's innovations were crucial to Raphael's development. This is strongly evident in the finished paintings as well as in the drawings that survive. An impressive example exists in Raphael's delicate and superbly rendered drawing of Leda and the Swan, copied from a painting by Leonardo that was famous in its time, but is now lost. With little attention paid to the swan, Raphael concentrates on Leda, turning her figure into an exercise demonstrating torsion and balancing weight. ## Related artworks - [A Group of Nude Men]() - [A Group of Warriors]() - [A nude man advancing to the right \(verso\)]() - [A Soldier before the Cell of St Peter]() - [A Youthful Warrior \(recto\)]() - [Adam and Eve \(ceiling panel\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aldobrandini Madonna \(Garvagh Madonna\)]() - [Allegory \(The Knight's Dream\)]() - [Amorini at play \(verso\)]() - [An Angel]() - [Angel \(fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()