ATTRIBUTED TO THE LENINGRAD PAINTER, CIRCA MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED PANEL AMPHORA (TYPE B)
ATTRIBUTED TO THE LENINGRAD PAINTER, CIRCA MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Side A: with a departure scene with a youth carrying spear, a sword and scabbard over shoulder, cloak draped over left shoulder, clasping the hand of a elderly bearded male carrying a staff, flanked on either side by a woman carrying oinochoe and phiale and another bearded male leaning on a staff; Side B: with a departure scene with a bearded male carrying staff facing a woman with her hand upraised, flanked on either side by a woman carrying an oinochoe, her hand upraised, and a bearded male; the scenes on both sides framed with band of linked lotus buds above, key pattern below and vertical bands of dotted zigzag, rays around the foot, graffito on underside of foot
20 in. (51 cm.) high

Provenance

Inherited from the current owner's grandparents in 1975.

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Lot Essay

For the Leningrad Painter and his works see:
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition, Vol. I, Oxford, 1963, pp. 567-574 and Vol. II, p. 1659.
J. Boardman, Athenian Red figure Vases The Archaic Period, London, 1975, p. 180, pls 322-326.
M. Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 143-150
T. Mannack, The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase-Painting, Oxford, 2001.

The Leningrad Painter and his workshop companion the Pig Painter were early Mannerists, clearly influenced by Myson and their contemporary the Pan Painter. Beazley first used the term mannerist to denote a group of painters who, at the time of radical change in artistic expression with the emergence of a new Classical style, chose to adhere to the Archaic tradition.

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