About the Artwork
Leda and the Swan
between 1840 and 1849
Jean-Jacques Feuchère
1807-1852
French
Unknown
Silvered bronze
Overall: 7 × 9 1/16 × 5 5/16 inches, 9.1 pounds (17.8 × 23 × 13.5 cm, 4.1 kg)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund
81.6
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Faber Donoughe, New York, New York, USA)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Romantics to Rodin. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, DIA, Indianapolis Museum of Art. March 4, 1980-April 29, 1981, pp. 321-22, no. 184 [misattributed to J. Pradier by H.W. Janson].
Lami. 1916, no. 368.
Faber Donoughe. New York, n.d. (after 1981), dealer brochure, (fig. 7. ill.).
Hawley, Henry. "Some Intimate Sculptures of Feuchère," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 3 (March 1981): pp. 75–83, p. 83, no. 28.
The Influence of Paris: European and American Sculpture 1830-1930. Exh. cat., DIA. 1981, cat. no. 2, p. 7 (ill.).
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Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Leda and the Swan, between 1840 and 1849, silvered bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund, 81.6.
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