Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
17-7/8 x 14 in. 23 x 18-1/2 in. (framed)
Accession Number
Credit Line
The Orville A. and Elma D. Wilkinson Fund
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color Palette
Provenance
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Gallery Labels
- This figure, with his tortured expression and tousled hair, is based on the classical sculpture of the mythological Trojan priest, Laocoön. The sculpture’s full composition reveals the source of his anguish—Laocoön and his two sons are writhing in the grip of two serpents.
- The artist probably saw this marble sculpture in the Vatican Museums during a visit to Rome in 1790 or copied a plaster cast of it in the Milan academy where he studied.
- A basic component of Appiani’s traditional academic training called for students to make sketches after statuary before receiving instruction in drawing a live model.
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