P12.A: Head of Laocoön, after the Antique
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P12.A
- People
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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
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Plaster
- Dimensions
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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
- Permissions
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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
- The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2017 - 12/31/2017; The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 04/17/2018 - 07/15/2018
- The Art of Looking: 150 Years of Art History at Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/25/2025 - 05/11/2025
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