Ewer with Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa
On one side of this ewer, the Greek hero Perseus stands before a serene landscape, holding the severed head of the feared Gorgon, Medusa, a female monster with snakes for hair. Perseus accepted the challenge of slaying Medusa in order to save his mother, Danae, from a forced m...
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G. H. Morland, before 1862, by purchase; Octavius E. Coope, Brentwood, Essex, 1866, by purchase; Sale, Christie's, London, May 3, 1910, no. 28; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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