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Lot Essay
The body features four hoplites in profile to the left, each armed with greaves, a circular shield (the black shields once with decorative blazons in added white, a bird on one, a swan on the other), a crested Corinthian helmet and a spear. They stand between two figures wearing striped himations, youthful to the left, bearded to the right. The scene is framed by vertical bands of ivy. On the shoulders, a youth in a himation stands between a pair of sphinxes and frontal-facing panthers. There are tongues above and a band of rosettes between raised moldings low on the neck.
The Painter of Louvre F6, together with the Painter of Vatican 309, were close companions of the painter Lydos. According to Beazley (Attic Black-figure Vase-Painters, p. 114), “the difference between the three painters comes out in the human scenes; the wild animals are in a single style–whether one artist painted them all, or whether subordinates had so assimilated the master’s animal style that we cannot tell one hand from another.”
The Painter of Louvre F6, together with the Painter of Vatican 309, were close companions of the painter Lydos. According to Beazley (Attic Black-figure Vase-Painters, p. 114), “the difference between the three painters comes out in the human scenes; the wild animals are in a single style–whether one artist painted them all, or whether subordinates had so assimilated the master’s animal style that we cannot tell one hand from another.”