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Sculptor, painter, medalist, son of Lorenzo Lavy. A student at the Academy of Art at Turin in 1792-93, he worked at the Turin mint from 1794-1826, becoming sole engraver there at the death of his brother Carlo in 1813. In Rome in 1805-06, he met Canova and made copies after him and the antique. Lavy became a professor at the Turin academy in 1822 and a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1823. See Forrer 3, pp. 349-50; 7, pp. 538-39; Thieme-Becker 22, p. 480; Assandria, pp. 245-64. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976