The Foot of Laocoon

A 19th museum plaster taken from "Laocoon and his sons".

Numbered "2487" with wall hanger, probably the work of D. Bruccianni & Co but unsigned.

Late 19th century.

The statue of Laocoön and his sons, also called the Laocoön Group, was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display at the Vatican Museum, where it remains today. The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on art, who attributed it to Greek sculptors but did not say when it was created.

29cm/11.4inches (length), 27cm/10.6inches (height), 23cm/9inches (width)