Title(s)

Zes afgietsels van antieke sculpturen waaronder de Laocoöngroep, de discuswerper en Niobe met haar kind

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1074-3

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘6 Apoxyomenos. 7 Discobolos Myron. 8 Discobolis Naucydes. 9 Niobe and child. 10 Laocoon. 11 Gladiator Borghese’

Artist

• photographer: H.G. Smith
• photographer: H.W. Tupper

Dating

c. 1864 - in or before 1874

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 185 mm × width 172 mm

What

• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
• Laocoon and his twin sons are strangled by two serpents during the preparations for a sacrifice

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Cast catalogue of antique sculpture with an introduction to the study of ornament (RP-F-2001-7-1074)