id: 142277 accession number: 1966.114 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.114 updated: 2023-01-11 02:13:10.350000 White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes, 500–490 BC. Attributed to Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BC). Ceramic; overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1966.114 title: White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 500–490 BC creation date earliest: -500 creation date latest: -490 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BC) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-06-30T04:00:00 The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Eros, god of love, appears three times on this vase. digital description: Known as "white-ground" because of the white clay slip applied as a surface for figural decoration, vases of this type give some idea of the appearance of lost ancient large-scale wall paintings. Both remarkably well preserved and masterfully composed, the images cover the entire circumference of the vase. At the center, Atalanta, the virgin huntress renowned for both her speed and her opposition to marriage, races to the right while looking back at Eros, the winged god of love; both figures are named. This Eros, bounding forward, tries to crown her, while two additional Erotes (also named) further hem her in. Love will win. wall description: The extraordinary intact conditon of the fragile white ground and the spirited yet delicate drawing have made the vase renowned as one of the finest white-ground lekythoi in existence. Atalanta, who would marry only the man who could beat her in a foot race, is here being teased by three Erotes, winged gods of love. Each figure is identified by name: EPOS and ATALANTE. Douris was an Athenian vase painter who was active from about 500–460 BC. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 275976 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/9654108D-7528-4E08-B721-1910261E00C2 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n44 Cooney, John D. "Atalanta in Cleveland." 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La Cité des Regards: autour de François Lissarrague. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 210, fig. 3 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. 184-185, cat. 104 url: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0045%3Aentry%3D104 Carpenter, Thomas H. Art and Myth in Ancient Greece. 2021. 87-88. page number: Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 87-88, fig. 79. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.114/1966.114_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.114/1966.114_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.114/1966.114_full.tif