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Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group 

Period:
Archaic
Date:
ca. 540-530 B.C.
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:
H: 13" Greatest diameter: 8 3/4"
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 2010
Accession Number:
2010.147

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 155

  • Description

    Obverse, Herakles; reverse, Geryon. On the neck, obverse and reverse, a flute-player leading a procession of youths and men

    One of the labors of Herakles was to obtain the cattle of Geryon, a creature composed of three fully-armed bodies. Geryon lived on an island in the far west with his herdsman, Eurytion, and dog, Orthros. Here, Herakles takes aim with his arrow against Geryon, one of whose bodies is falling. The subject was popular in the sixth century B.C.; several representations in stone can be seen in the Cypriot galleries on the second floor. The vase is exceptional for its broad and sharply tapering shape that lacks a foot. It is also one of the earliest instances where the protagonists of a story are placed on opposite sides of the body.

  • Provenance

    [By 1964 and until 1973, with Herbert Cahn, Basel]; 1973, purchased by Rosemary and George Lois from Herbert Cahn; 1973-2010, collection of Rosemary and George Lois, New York; on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973, 1992, and 1999; acquired in 2010, purchased from Rosemary and George Lois through Bobbie Entwistle of Entwistle London.

  • References

    André Emmerich Gallery. 1964. Masterpieces of Greek vase painting: 7th to 5th century B.C. [Exhibition] at André Emmerich Gallery, New York, April 22 to May 30, 1964. New York: André Emmerich Gallery, no. 13.

    Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 57, no. 58 ter.

    Schefold, Karl. 1978. Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst. München: Hirmer, p. 116, figs. 144-145.

    Schefold, Karl. 1992. Gods and heroes in late archaic Greek art. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 125, pls. 124-125.

    Brize, Philip. 1980. Die Geryoneis des Stesichoros und die frühe griechische Kunst. Würzburg: K. Triltsch , p. 136, no. 33.

    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5, “Herakles and Geryon,” p. 74, no. 2466. Zürich: Artemis.

    Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 12, pp. 24, 74-79, 103.

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