About the Artwork
Storage Jar with Herakles and Nemean Lion
between 540 and 530 BCE
Lysippedes Painter
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Greek
Unknown
Clay
Overall: 17 3/4 × 12 × 11 1/2 inches (45.1 × 30.5 × 29.2 cm) Overall (outer diam. of mouth): 8 1/8 inches (20.6 cm) Overall (diam. of foot): 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Bloom Fund, William H. Murphy Fund and Matilda R. Wilson Fund
76.22
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
May 2, 1959, auctioned (Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, Switzerland), lot 98, pl. 46
(Mohamed Yeganeh-Arani, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Ars Antiqua A.G. Sale. Sales cat. Lucerne, May 2, 1959, cat. no. 98, pl. 46.
Peck, W. H. "Curatorial Reports--Ancient Art," Bulletin of the DIA 55 (1976): pp. 9-10, (fig. 5).
Greek Vase-painting in Midwestern Collections. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, December 22, 1979 - February 24, 1980, pp. 91-93, cat. 54, (repr.) [exh. organized by W. G. Moon and L. Berge, as manner of the Lysippides Painter].
Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 17-18, cat. 25, (fig. 28-29).
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manner of Lysippedes Painter, Storage Jar with Herakles and Nemean Lion, between 540 and 530 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Bloom Fund, William H. Murphy Fund and Matilda R. Wilson Fund, 76.22.
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