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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G323
People
Charles Clément Bervic, French (Paris, France 1756 - 1822 Paris, France)
After Pierre Bouillon, French (Thiviers 1776 - 1831 Paris)
Title
Laocoön
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Laocoön
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276045

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 34.2 × 28 cm (13 7/16 × 11 in.)
Plate: 42.5 × 31.9 cm (16 3/4 × 12 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 60.5 × 44.2 cm (23 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv
Standard Reference Number
Le Bl. 2, And. 2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G323
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
After the antique

Publication History

  • Stephen Bann, Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth-century France, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 2001), repr. as fig. 25 on p. 58 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]

Verification Level

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