ATTRIBUTED TO THE ARIADNE PAINTER, CIRCA 400-390 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ARIADNE PAINTER, CIRCA 400-390 B.C.
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high

Provenance

L.M. Cutler, Scottsdale, AZ.
The Cutler Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 8 June 1994, lot 103.

Literature

A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1991, p. 7, no. 118d.

Lot Essay

The Ariadne Painter, a follower of the Sisyphus Painter, takes his name from the stamnos in Boston depicting Theseus abandoning Ariadne (no. 8 in J.M. Padgett, et al., Vase-Painting in Italy, Red-Figure and Related Works in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

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