IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14007 accession number: M.60-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Figure group. Copper alloy, probably bronze. Cast, and chased. Jupiter is disguised as a swan, and is clambering up a rocky bank to Leda, whose left arm is wrapped around the swan's body. Jupiter is assisted by Cupid, who removes Leda's draperies. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: (with M.59-1984) Purchased directly from Massimilano Soldani-Benzi by Giovan Gualberto Guicciardini, Palazzo Valori (or dei 'Visacci'), Florence, 25 June 1717 (150 scudi); March 1729 by inheritance, Carlo Rinuccini (husband of Vittoria Teresa Guicciardini, daughter of the late Giovan Gualberto), Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence; 19th century, by inheritance, Prince Ludovico Trivulzio, Milan; The Luccardi Collection, Milan; Zürich art market, where purchased by John Winter; Given by John Winter, Esq. in memory of his father, Carl Winter, Director of the Fitzwilliam (1946-1966), 1984. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by John Winter, Esq. in memory of his father Carl Winter, Director of the Fitzwilliam (1946-1966) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14007 PEOPLE ------------------- Leda Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- swan swan TECHNIQUES ---------- copper alloy, probably bronze, cast, and chased casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1717 - 1717 creation date earliest: 1717 creation date latest: 1717 culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Soldani-Benzi, Massimiliano DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 31.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam, "The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation" title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005) CITATIONS -------- The Luccardi Collection of Milan Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975 Recent acquisitions by the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Note sulla collezione Guicciardini e su due gruppi bronzei del Soldani Benzi Lord Burlington - The Man and His Politics: Questions of Loyalty Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Le Statue del Marchese Ginori, sculture in porcellana bianca di Doccia Treasures of a New Bronze Age, the Small Bronze Age Frick Presents Exhibit of Italian Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes Frick Collection To Exhibit Remarkable Bronzes From The Fitzwilliam Museum Soldani's mythological bronzes and his British clientele Arredi, ceramiche ed oggetti d'arte e la collezione di Don Pietro Bruno di Belmonte --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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