Hydria (Water Jar)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

480-470 BCE

Attributed to the Orchard Painter
Greek; Athens

This vase depicts the winged goddess Eos (Dawn), wearing a diadem, chiton and himation, pursuing an unnamed youth who is probably Tithonos: she has caught him by the arm. He wears a himation and holds a lyre in his left hand. On the left of the scene a boy, heavily wrapped in his himation, flees to the left, but turns his head back to the right: he was perhaps intended to be a schoolmate.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: The Orchard Painter
Title: Hydria (Water Jar)
Place: Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 480 BCE–470 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 33.5 × 33.7 × 27.6 cm (13 3/16 × 13 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1889.95
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Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 47, no. 372.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 527, 68.
S. Kaempf-Dimitriadou, Die Liebe der Götter in der attischen Kunst des 5. Jahrhunderts. v. Chr. (Bern 1969), p. 87 no. 133.
J. Boardman, Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (Zurich 1981–2009), sv Eos, p. 765, no. 141.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

Said to be found in Nola [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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