THE PAINTER OF LOUVRE K491, CIRCA 360-340 B.C.

One side depicts an Oscan warrior with a white shield beside him, sitting on a black-spotted rock and testing the sharpness of his spear, with the other side showing a standing youth wearing a mantel flanked by two large fan-palmettes. The design of the black-spotted rock and use of fan-palmettes is characteristic of the Painter of the Louvre K 491, as well as the Cassandra Painter. Both painters are very closely related in style, which A. D. Trendall, in The Red Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Vol. I, Oxford, 1967, p. 230, suggests may indicate that they worked in collaboration with each other. For another bail-amphora with a similar motif, see A. D. Trendall, The Red Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Vol. I, Oxford, 1967, p. 322, no. 706 pl. 126,3. by the Errera Painter.