Lekythos (oil flask) with Herakles leading Kerberos
Artist:
Attributed to the Gela Painter
Place made:Athens, Greece, Europe
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 500-490 B.C.
Dimensions:
h. 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: DEAC.91.80.1
Provenance: sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1989; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1991 [accession number 91.80.1]; deaccessioned in January 2022 and transferred to the Manhattan District Attorney, New York, for restitution to Italy
Published References
Galerie Günter Puhze, Katalog 8 (Freiburg 1989) 21, no. 208
D. Buitron, ed al., eds. "The Odyssey and Ancient Art: An Epic in Word and Image" (Bard College exh. cat., Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1992) 100-01, 105, no. 31 (B. Cohen)
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 126-7, no. 63
C. Pouzadoux, “Hades,” LIMC Supplementum 2009 (Düsseldorf: Artemis Verlag, 2009), vol. 1, p. 235, no. add.9 [illustrated]
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