O son, both arms and hands to me, and source of all my poweryou rule the gods and Jove himself
Venus, in Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.365–.369

Leda and the Swan with Her Children, ca. 1508–16
Giovanni Battista Palumba (Master IB with the Bird) (active in Northern Italy and Rome, ca.1500–1516)
Engraving; sheet 6 1/4 x 5 in. (15.9 x 12.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951 (51.623.3)

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