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Leda and the Swan

Carlo Antonio Porporati (Italian, 1741–1816)
After: Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian (Parmese), about 1489–1534)
about 1770-1790

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 79 x 55.7 cm (31 1/8 x 21 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 56.8 x 39 cm (22 3/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Children of C. C. Perkins
Accession NumberM6438
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Le Blanc 05, i/iv; Apell 6, ii/v; de Vesme 8, iii/vi
Marks Verso, upper center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceCharles Callahan Perkins, Boston (1823-1886); by descent to his children; their gift to the MFA April 9, 1889