Leda and the Swan

Émile Antoine Bourdelle, French, 1861 - 1929

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about 1919

Watercolor with pen and ink on paper

Sheet: 8 × 6 1/4 in. (20.3 × 15.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Mary Fanton Roberts

W.957.12

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, Lower Left: ANT BOURDELLE

Course History

CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2020

SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.

The Nude, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29-October 22, 1976.

The Sculptor Draws, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 1-20, 1966.

Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.

Publication History

Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 27-28.

Provenance

Mary Fanton Roberts (1864-1956), New York; bequeathed to present collection, 1957.

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