page_title: Ugolino and His Sons (Carpeaux)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Ugolino and His Sons (Carpeaux) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Laocoön and his sons, also known as the Laocoön Group. Marble, copy after an Hellenistic original from ca. 200 BC. Found in the Baths of Trajan, 1506. Français&#160;: Laocoon et ses fils, également connu comme le Groupe du Laocoon. Marbre, copie d'un original hellénistique de 200 av. J.-C. environ. Provenance&#160;: thermes de Trajan, en début d'année 1507.Deutsch: Lakoon und seine Söhne, auch als Lakoon-Gruppe bekannt. Marmor, Nachbildung aus hellenistischem Original von 200 v.Chr., gefunden in den Trajan-Thermen in Rom im Jahr 1507.
context_page_description: Ugolino and His Sons is a marble sculpture of Ugolino made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris during the 1860s. It depicts the story of Ugolino from Dante's Inferno in which the 13th century count is imprisoned and starving with his children. The work, known for its expressive detail, launched Carpeaux's career.
context_section_description: Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854. While in Rome, he stayed in the French Academy in Rome's Villa Medici and studied the works of Michelangelo. Carpeaux's Ugolino was prototyped on Michelangelo's works from three centuries prior, particular his Last Judgment panel of the Sistine Chapel. The children's anatomy was based on naturalistic observation. He sketched dying children as part of his preparation. He was compositionally influenced by Laocoön and His Sons at the Vatican. Carpeaux completed the work in the last year of his residence at the French Academy in Rome.
  The sculpture was cast in bronze in 1863 by the French Ministry of Fine Arts and displayed in the Parisian Tuileries to accompany a replica of Laocoön. A marble version was completed in Paris under Carpeaux's supervision for the owner of the Saint-Béat marble quarry to exhibit at the 1867 International Exposition. This version was later acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
caption: Laocoön and His Sons (1st century BCE) compositionally influenced Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons
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