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Bergeret exhibited nine works at the 1835 Salon alongside the Discovery of the Laocoon, a testament to his popularity at the time and growing interest in the troubadour style of genre painting that he championed as a reaction against the neo-antique style and Christian iconoclasm of the République period. Troubadour artists appealed to their Restoration patrons by illustrating idealized scenes from mostly French religious and monarchical history, painted with attention to accurate costume detail and a moralizing twist.
Bergeret's composition depicts the 16th century discovery of the antique sculpture group, Laocoon and His Sons, found by Augustino di Fredi in the ruins of the Baths of Titus in 1506 and gifted by Michelangelo to Pope Julius II, whose monumental tomb he was designing at the time. Pope Julius II can be seen arriving at the scene on his throne carried by four bearers in the presence of Raphael, Baccio Bandinelli, and enraptured onlookers.
After it was sold in the Delessert sale in 1869 in Paris, the painting remained missing for more than a century and was known only from a lithograph.
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