Leda Chimney Plate And The Swan

Fireplace plate dating from the eighteenth century decorated with a mythological scene in a medallion, Leda and the swan scene repeated many times in the eighteenth, among others by Boucher in 1741, the ornamentation of its perimeter is typical of the Rocaille style; Leda was the daughter of the king of Etholia and Tyndare, she was loved by Jupiter who approached her in the form of a swan and joined her as she bathed in the river "Eurotas". From her love with the god, she conceived two children, Helen and Pollux, who were born in an egg, while Clytemnestra and Castor, the children of Tyndare, were born in another egg. The story is told by Ovid in The Metamorphoses, a book written at the beginning of the first century. Its weight is 60 kg.