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Hector Painter (attributed to the)
Red-Figure Neck-Amphora with (A) Triptolemos Attended by Demeter and Persephone and (B) Two Youths Facing a Womancirca 440-430 B.C.

On view:
Geffen Galleries, floor 1
Ancient Greek red-figure ceramic amphora with black glaze, decorated with two draped figures flanking a winged figure seated in a chariot, with palmette and meander border bands
Red-figure ceramic amphora with two handles; three draped figures in terracotta against a black ground, the central figure holding a staff; neck decorated with palmette and spiral motifs, base with meander pattern.
Artist or Maker
Hector Painter (attributed to the)
Greece, Attica, active circa 450-420 BCE
Title
Red-Figure Neck-Amphora with (A) Triptolemos Attended by Demeter and Persephone and (B) Two Youths Facing a Woman
Place Made
Greece, Attica
Date Made
circa 440-430 B.C.
Medium
Red-figure ceramic
Dimensions
19 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (48.9 × 24.77 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
50.8.23
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture: Greek and Roman
Selected Bibliography
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1991. vol. 28-29, no. 12-1 (December, 1990-January, 1992).
  • Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
  • Clement, Paul A. "Geryon and Others in Los Angeles." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 24, no.1 (1955): 1-24.
  • Hope, Francis, and E.M.W. Tillyard. The Hope Vases: a Catalogue and a Discussion of the Hope Collection of Greek Vases. Cambridge: University Press, 1923.
  • Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire des Vases Peints Grecs et Étrusques. Paris: E. Leroux, 1922.