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San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Jar (amphora) with Herakles, Deianeira and Nessos

San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Peggy Tenison.

Jar (amphora) with Herakles, Deianeira and Nessos

Artist:
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 540-530 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta, black-figure technique
Dimensions:
height: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
max. width including handles: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
max. diameter (body): 10 9/16 in. (26.8 cm)
diameter of foot: 5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm)
diameter of rim: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 75.59.15
Provenance: Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), London, by 1855; in his sale at Christie's, London, April 28, 1856, lot 348; his nephew William Sharpe (c. 1805-c. 1870), London, by 1870; his daughter Mary Catherine Sharpe (c. 1842-c. 1935), Middlesex, before 1934; her nephew Stephen Lewis Courtauld (1882-1967), London, Baintree, and Eltham Hall, U.K., and La Rochelle, Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) by 1934; probably by inheritance to Viriginia Peirano Courtauld (c. 1883-1972), La Rochelle, and Jersey, U.K., 1967; sold, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1974, lot 227, to San Antonio Museum Association; transferred to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
Published References Christie and Manson, Catalogue of the Very Celebrated Collection of Works of Art, the Property of Samuel Rogers, Esq., Deceased, London, April 28, 1856, lot 348. J.D. Beazley, "Paralipomena" (Oxford, 1971) p. 56, no. 38 bis Sotheby's (London) 9 December 1974, lot 227 H.A. Shapiro, ed., "Art, Myth and Culture: Greek Vases from Southern Collections" (New Orleans, 1981) pp. 68-9, no. 25 J.P. Uhlenbrock, "Herakles: Passage of the Hero through 1,000 Years of Classical Art" (New Rochelle, NY 1986) pp. 101- 2, cat. no. 2 (H.A. Shapiro) H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, G.D. Scott, III, ed., "Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art" (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 89-90, no. 41
Label Text
Side A: Herakles slaying the centaur Nessos
Side B: A wheeling chariot
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