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Laocoön and His Sons is a 0.83 m high marble sculpture by Joseph Chinard, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It is a reduced-scale copy of the ancient Laocoön and His Sons. He received the inspiration for it during a trip to Rome in the 1740s, where he observed the methods of Doccia porcelain.

Sources

• Catalogue de l'exposition D'après l'Antique no 92, 16 octobre 2000 - 15 janvier 2001, Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Jean-René Gaborit, Alain Pasquier.

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