Leda and the swan in cameo. Greek god Zeus in the form of a swan rapes the naked Leda, wife of Spartan KIng Tyndareus. Leda in cameo. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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