[Statue of Leda and the Swan]

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[Statue of Leda and the Swan]

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Tommaso Cuccioni

Italian Photographer · 1790–1864

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A successful engraver and print dealer in Rome, Tommaso Cuccioni took up photography in 1852. He photographed paintings in the Palazzo Farnese and exhibited views of Rome at the World Exhibition in London in 1862. Upon Cuccioni's death, the business passed to his brother Gioacchino, and what amounted to the copyright went to his wife, Isabella. She carried on her husband's work by purchasing and p

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Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Italian
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Photograph of a statue depicting Leda and Zeus in the guise of a swan. The statue portrays Leda as a seated female figure with a swan on her lap, holding up a large piece of cloth with one hand. The swan cranes its neck to look up at Leda.

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