Hydria Depicting a Wedding Procession

ca. 520 BCE (Archaic)

37.3 cm 43 cm 36.6 cm

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The scene in the main panel of this hydria represents a wedding procession, with the bride and groom in a chariot drawn by four horses. While the groom manages the horses' reins, the woman holds her veil out in a gesture of modesty befitting the Greek bride. Behind the horses...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897 [cat. no. 177]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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