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Artist
English: Wedding Painter (name vase)
Français : Peintre du Mariage (vase éponyme)
Description
English: Wedding of Thetis and Peleus. Attic red-figure pyxis, ca. 470–460 BC. From Athens, South side of Mouseion Hill.
Français : Noces de Thétis et Pélée. Pyxis attique à figures rouges, vers 470-460 av. J.-C. Provenance : Athènes, côté sud de la colline des Muses.
Date between circa 470 and circa 460 BC
Medium red-figure pottery
Dimensions height: 18.5 cm (7.2 in); width: 13.4 cm (5.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,18.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,13.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre, Sully, first floor, room 39, case 11
Accession number
L 55 (N 3348)
Object history
  • excavated. Place: Athens .
  • September 1817: purchased by Comte de Forbin from Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel
  • 1818: purchased by Comte de Forbin from Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel
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