This Art Deco print of Marcel Bourain's Leda and the Swan has a simplified realism and geometry that is a defining aspect of Art Deco style. This photograph, circa 1925, captures the majesty and symmetry of the piece using light and shadow.

Leda and the Swan is a Greek myth that has been depicted many times from Antiquity through the Renaissance. In it, Zeus takes the form of a swan and visits Leda, the queen of Sparta, together they give birth to Helen, whose abduction brings about the Trojan War.

Marcel Bouraine (1886-1948) was a significant French statuary artist. Mainly self-taught and working mostly in bronze, many of Bouraine's sculptures were of classical themes. Bouraine studied for a period under Jean-Alexndre-Joseph Falguiere. While a German prisoner during the 1914-1918 war, he produced several monuments in Switzerland. Bouraine used two pseudonyms, Derenne and Briand, mainly on metal pieces produced by his life long friend and foundry owner Max Le Verrier. Both Le Verrier and Bouraine were friends with Pierre Le Faguays and they all frequently worked together. They all studied together at the Beaux Arts in Geneva. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries and most of the main Paris salons. He executed sculptures for many French firms, including Susse Freres, Etling, Max Le Verrier and Austria's Arthur Goldscheider. In 1928 Gabriell Argy-rousseau commissioned a number of figurines from Bouraine, mainly female nudes, but also a fountain and an illuminated group in coloured, translucent glass. He executed two major commissions for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.