{{italic title ''Laocoön and His Sons'' is a 0.83 m high marble sculpture by

Joseph Chinard Joseph Chinard (Lyon, 12 February 1756 — Lyon 20 June 1813) was a French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style that was infused with naturalism and sentiment. Life He received his early training in Lyon, as a painter, in the government-s ...

, now in the

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 1 ...

. It is a reduced-scale copy of the ancient ''

Laocoön and His Sons The statue of ''Laocoön and His Sons'', also called the Laocoön Group ( it, Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures ever since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and placed on public display in the Vatican Museums ...

''. He received the inspiration for it during a trip to Rome in the 1740s, where he observed the methods of

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*Catalogue de l'exposition D'après l'Antique no 92, 16 octobre 2000 - 15 janvier 2001, Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Jean-René Gaborit, Alain Pasquier. category:1740s sculptures category:Marble sculptures Sculptures in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Snakes in art