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Two Male Heads after the Antique, the Sons of Laocoön, c. 1605. Red chalk on ivory laid paper.
Red chalk on ivory laid paper · 16 × 25.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Two Male Heads after the Antique, the Sons of Laocoön
- Artist
- Hendrick Goltzius Dutch, 1558–1617
- Date
- c. 1605
- Medium
- Red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16 × 25.2 cm (6 5/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1558–1617
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.