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KRATER, CALYX (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)

Red-figure Euphronios · Krater · -550 to -500

A: YOUTH IN CHITON WITH PIPES MOUNTING PLATFORM BETWEEN SEATED YOUTHS | B: HERAKLES AND ANTAIOS, WOMEN FLEEING

Inscription

Provenance

4 recorded events

Excavation c. 1830s

Cerveteri (ancient Caere), Etruria, Italy

Excavated at Cerveteri, site of the ancient Etruscan city of Caere — one of the major centres of Etruscan civilisation and a major market for Attic pottery.

Purchase c. 1840s

Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana — Campana Collection

Rome, Italy

Entered the Campana collection, the largest private assemblage of classical antiquities in 19th-century Rome.

Confiscation 1857

Papal States

Rome, Italy

Seized by the Papal government after Campana's conviction for fraud and embezzlement from the Monte di Pietà.

The Campana collection confiscation of 1857 and subsequent dispersal remains one of the most significant events in the history of classical archaeology collecting.

Purchase 1861

Napoleon III — Musée du Louvre

Paris, France

Purchased by Napoleon III as part of the bulk acquisition of the Campana collection for France. Depicts Herakles wrestling the giant Antaios — one of Euphronios's masterpieces as a painter, showing his mastery of anatomy and foreshortening.

Beazley, ARV², 14.2; Louvre acquisition records

Shape

Krater

Technique

Red-figure

Date

-550 to -500

Culture

ATHENIAN

Painter

Euphronios

Attribution