Intaglio with Pegasus Set in a Ring
This intaglio depicts the winged horse Pegasus in profile to the left. Pegasus sprang from Medusa's neck when she was decapitated by the hero Perseus. While Pegasus was drinking from a spring at Corinth, the hero Bellerophon tamed him with a bridle given to him by the goddess...
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Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 53; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.134 |
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