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English: Attributed to the Painter of London E 497
Français : Attribué au Peintre de Londres E 497
Description
English: Orpheus amongst the Thracians. Side A of an Attic red-figure bell-krater.
Français : Orphée chez les Thraces. Face A d'un cratère en cloche attique à figures rouges.
Date circa 440 BC
Medium terracotta
medium QS:P186,Q60424
Dimensions height: 29.5 cm (11.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,29.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Department of Greek and Roman Art
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24.97.30
Credit line Fletcher Fund, 1924
Notes Orpheus, the best known of the mythical musicians, is associated with Thrace in the northernmost part of Greece. After he had descended into the underworld to find his beloved wife, Eurydice, and had lost her, he withdrew into solitude. Feeling rebuffed, Thracian women set upon Orpheus and killed him. Here he is shown seated on a rock formation and engrossed in his music. The central figure, wearing typical Thracian dress, identifies the setting, while the woman who holds a sickle in her left hand foreshadows Orpheus's fate.
References Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 130011979
Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011)
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