Laocoon, Large Pencil Drawing, 19th Century.

Large academic drawing representing one of the sons of Laocoon, from the iconography of the famous antique marble group discovered in 1506 in Rome, currently preserved in the Pio-Clementino Museum (Vatican), named: "The Laocoon and his sons".
It would have been sculpted around 40 - 30 BC.

This beautiful artistic work is highlighted in an elegant oak frame highlighted by a frieze of carved and gilded wooden oves. Protective glass.

19th century.

Dimensions:
75x61 cm
with frame 48x62.5 cm without frame

Period 19th century
Beautiful state of conservation

Laocoon, priest of the cult of Apollo, had against the will of the latter taken a wife and had children. While the Greeks offer a huge wooden horse to the Trojans for their protector Athena, Laocoon urges them not to let him in. He is also said to have thrown his spear on the horse's flanks.
At the same time, while the latter was performing a sacrifice to Neptune on the shore of the Aegean Sea, Apollo (who had not forgotten the insult) sent two monstrous serpents, to the surface of the waves, to kill his two sons. When Laocoon tried to help them, they killed him too by enclosing him in their rings.
The two reptiles then took refuge at the feet of the statue of Athena. The Trojans, unaware of the secret life of their priest Laocoon, made a clumsy interpretation of Apollo's anger: the priest had been punished for having degraded the offered horse.
The gods actually wanted to make them understand to let the horse in. Which they did.



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