Stamnos with Eos and Two Youths

470-460 BCE (Classical)

19.3 cm 36.3 cm

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His lyre tumbling to the ground, the youth Tithonus flees the amorous goddess Eos. She grabs his neck while fingering her mantle in the traditional gesture of a demure bride. This theme was a popular subject for red-figure vessels from the early to mid 5th century BC. This "st...

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Robert Garrett Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by purchase.
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