The vision of a different painter (Correggio). The woman is Leda. Here she has a lot more company. There is probably no point in trying to find the other girl from Boucher's picture. Why? Neither the swan nor Leda seem to be distracted from each other by the other girls present. The swan is Zeus, and Leda is to be the mother of the future Helen of Troy. Correggio seems to show a very Arcadian view. In Boucher's picture the girls seem to be much more of this world (ie: his).Who can say what a mythological queen actually looks like? |