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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P12.A
People
Jean-André Getti, French (active early 19th century)
Manufactured by Musée du Louvre Atelier de Moulage
Title
Head of Laocoön, after the Antique
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1803
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/78117

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Plaster
Dimensions
63 x 39 x 32 cm (24 13/16 x 15 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
32 lbs

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Musée du Louvre Plaster Workshop. Acquired by Harvard University before 1828

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection
Accession Year
1828
Object Number
P12.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ethan Lasser, "A Classroom in the Age of Enlightenment", The Magazine Antiques (New York, NY, 2017), Fig. 2
  • Jonathan Shaw and Jennifer Carling, "The Lost Museum: Teachings of the Philosophy Chamber, Recreated", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 42-49, p. 44
  • Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 136, Plate 72; p. 210 (detail), pp. 218-221 in Oliver Wunsch's "Decay"

Exhibition History

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