"Leda and the Swan", one of the oldest and most recurrent iconographies in the History of Art, tells the famous Greek myth in which the almighty god Zeus, in love with a young and beautiful mortal, seduces her by turning into a splendid white swan.

In this monumental bronze sculpture, Master Botero not only takes up the subject due to his constant interest to appropriate and re-interpret traditional themes of the History of Art; he also finds in this strange erotic tale an excuse to capture movement and forms that no other topic would allow him, while at the same time delving in one of the life-long obsessions of his work, the female nude.