id: 110237 accession number: 1928.859 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.859 updated: 2023-03-04 09:29:42.452000 White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Youths at Tomb, c. 420 BC. Attributed to Group R (Greek, Attic, active c. 420–410 BC). Ceramic; overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1928.859 title: White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Youths at Tomb title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 420 BC creation date earliest: -425 creation date latest: -415 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Group R (Greek, Attic, active c. 420–410 BC) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections opening date: 1979-12-22T05:00:00 Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1928 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1928- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: White-ground vases give some idea of the appearance of ancient wall painting. digital description: This white-ground lekythos, a large funerary oil vessel, shows three youths at a tomb. The one seated in the center likely represents the deceased, while those standing on either side are mourners. Although much of the pigment is now lost, the strong use of line and three-quarter views have been cited by some scholars as possibly reflecting the lost works of the famous wall-painter Parrhasios. wall description: The white-ground technique was the closest form to ancient wall painting. The artist covered the area of the vessel that was to be decorated with a thick white slip and then he drew the figures and subsidiary decoration on that ground. The scene is of three youths at a tomb. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 217811 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4A88D09D-9575-4A21-BCCB-47D959BFA887 Beazley, J. D. Attic White Lekythoi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938. page number: p. 25, pl. VIII (as "Once Geneva, Dr. Hirsch"). url: Cox, Warren E. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944. page number: Vol. I, p. 59, pl. 15. url: Archaeological Institute of America. 1953. "Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Archaeology: A Magazine Dealing with the Antiquity of the World, vol. 6.4. page number: pp. 195-202 (ill. on p. 198). url: Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5-6; Plate 10 url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n9 Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. page number: p. 1383, no. 10. url: Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: p. 23, plates 35,2 & 36 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={4A88D09D-9575-4A21-BCCB-47D959BFA887}&startRef= Neils, Jenifer. "The Orestes Sarcophagus and Other Classical Marbles." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (1984). page number: p. 103, fig. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159856 Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. page number: p. 372 url: Beazley, J. D., and Donna C. Kurtz. Greek Vases: Lectures. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. page number: plate 24 url: Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. page number: Mentioned & reproduced pp. 218-219 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_full.tif