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Hydria (Water Jar)

Description

This vase depicts the winged goddess Eos (Dawn), wearing a diadem, chiton and himation, pursuing an unnamed youth who is probably Tithonos: she has caught him by the arm. He wears a himation and holds a lyre in his left hand. On the left of the scene a boy, heavily wrapped in his himation, flees to the left, but turns his head back to the right: he was perhaps intended to be a schoolmate.

Provenance

Said to be found in Nola [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

Dimensions

33.5 × 33.7 × 27.6 cm (13 3/16 × 13 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)

Movement / Period

red-figure

Accession No

252

Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of Attributed to the Orchard Painter Greek; Athens

red-figure • Greece • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries