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Artist:
Pierre Jean David d'Angers
[French sculptor, 1788-1856]
Title: Philopoemen
Date: 1837
Medium: marble
Dimensions: 90 inches (229 cm.) high
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris
Image size: 1251 x 1902 pixels, 402 Kbytes
Image source: Artcyclopedia |
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David d'Angers captures Philopoemen as he struggles to remove a javelin from his thigh. He has broken off the shaft, the base of which is visible at the very bottom of the photograph.
Note that for the purposes of ActualSize, displaying the work at approximately its real size, this photograph shows about 52" of the statue.
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