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Laocoön
Jean de Gourmont1520/30
- Attribution
- Jean de Gourmont French, 1506-1551
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 10.6 × 15.3 cm (4 3/16 × 6 1/16 in.); Sheet: 10.7 × 15.4 cm (4 1/4 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
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Typical of Gourmont' s oeuvre, this print features small figures dwarfed by landscape and architecture. In this scene, Gourmont imagines Troy and the altar of Neptune where Laocoon and his sons were attacked by huge writhing snakes. The artist's characteristic imprint can be seen on the stone behind the burning pyre.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0