Leda and the Swan, um quadro polémico - Leonardo da Vinci(?) !

Leda e o Cisne é um quadro que me atrai não só por causa da sua beleza mas também, por causa do enredo à volta dele. Há uns tempos coloquei um estudo da cabeça de Leda. Agora ficam aqui estes dois trabalhos. Qual é a verdade?

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Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo, 1515-1520,

Oil on canvas, Wilton House, England.

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Leonardo da Vinci, Leda, 1510-15
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Oil on panel, 112 x 86 cm,Galleria Borghese, Rome

"In the inventories, the famous painting of Leda and the Swan was for three hundred years (until 1893) thought to be by Sodoma, or a copy by the latter. Its attribution is still doubtful, but from recent research into wills it is now thought to be an unfinished painting that was in Leonardo's house at the time of his death (1519) and inherited by his pupil Salai who reworked it. X-rays have revealed another composition beneath this one depicting Leda's four children (Castor, Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra) emerging from the swan's eggs. Leda with her arms around the swan (Jupiter) in an elegant curving pose, her hair partially escaping from her plaits, set against the spacious river landscape, was most certainly conceived by Leonardo, but executed by different artists".