Lot 25
  • 25

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED VASE FRAGMENT, ATTRIBUTED TO EUPHRONIOS, circa 520-500 B.C.

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Description

  • AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED VASE FRAGMENT, ATTRIBUTED TO EUPHRONIOS
  • 1 3/8 by 1 3/16 in. 3.5 by 3 cm.
probably from a neck amphora, painted with the fragmentary face of a bearded satyr, the thin eyelashes finely rendered.

Provenance

English private collection, prior to 1984
Canadian private collection

Literature

Euphronios, peintre à Athènes au VIe siècle avant J.-C., catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, September 18th to December 31st, 1990, Paris, 1990, no. 26, illus. (Princeton Loan L.1984.57).

Catalogue Note

For a fragment of the same amphora depicting another satyr holding a bunch of grapes see Euphronios, no. 25. For a related head of a satyr on a Dionysiac krater by Euphronios in the Louvre, inv. no. G11, see Euphronios, no. 11, pp. 112-113.