Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
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Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings is a an arts encyclopedia edited by John Denison Champlin and Charles Callahan Perkins.
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- "LEDA, Correggio, Berlin Museum ; canvas. Leda and her companions surprised by swans while frolicking in the water in a wood. Painted in 1530-32, probably by order of the Duke of Mantua, together with the Danae, for a present to the Emperor Charles V. ; afterwards in possession of Antonio Perez, favourite of Philip n., and sold, after his fall, to Emperor Rodolf n. ; in Prague catalogue of 1621, and probably carried to Stockholm when the Swedes took Prague in 1648 ; passed from collection of Queen Christina, through several hands, to Orleans Collection in 1722. Louis the Pious, son of the Regent Due d'Orleans, instigated by his father confessor Abbe de Saint Genevieve, cut out the head of the Leda and otherwise mutilated it. The fragments fell into the hands of Charles Coypel, the court-painter, and either he or a painter named Deslyen repaired it and repainted the head. At Coypel's sale it was bought by Pasquier for 16,050 livres, and at his sale (1755) it was bought for Frederick the Great for 21,060 livres. In 1806 the French took it from the Palace of Sansouci to Paris, where Prud'hon painted in a new head ; it was returned in 1814, and has been in the Berlin Museum since 1830. Lately restored by Schlesinger, who put in a still better head. Keplica in Palazzo Rospiglioso, Rome, and in Madrid Museum. Engraved by Duchange ; Desrochers ; Miiller ; Porporati. — Meyer, Correggio, 347, 490 ; Kiinst. Lex., i. 440 ; Landon, (Euvres, viii. PI. 55 ; Klas. der Malerei (group), i. PI. 52 ; ReveH, xii. 859."
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