NEW YORK (1010 WINS/ AP) -- A rarely seen Leonardo da Vinci drawing is going on display in New York.
The display was announced by Sotheby's on Thursday, which marked the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
The auction house is hanging “Leda and the Swan” in its Manhattan galleries next month as part of an exhibition of treasures from Chatsworth, one of Britain’s grandest country houses.
The pen-and-ink drawing depicts Leda, wife of the king of Sparta, with the god Jupiter, who has disguised himself as a swan to seduce her and was creted by Leonardo in 1506, at the same time he was working on the “Mona Lisa.”
The drawing was a preparatory sketch for a painting that appears to have never been completed.
Sotheby’s Chatsworth exhibition runs June 28 until Septembr 18.
Sotheby's worldwide head of Old Master drawings, Gregory Rubinstein, says the project is mysterious "because there is no surviving record of any commission and no painting survives.''