Beautiful as the treatment is, it is decidedly sensual, and as such, it upset the zealous piety of Louis, son of the Regent in Paris. He attacked this painting with a knife and cut Leda's head, but it was later added by Schlesingen.
The baroque representation of the same motif (Leda by Antoine Coypel (1661-1722)) refers to this part of mythology which says that Leda had sex with Zeus and her husband Tyndareus, king of Sparta on the same night (which means here at the same time). |
 "Leda with the Swan")
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