id: 142277
accession number: 1966.114
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White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes, 500–490 BCE. Attributed to Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BCE). 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
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creation date: 500–490 BCE
creation date earliest: -500
creation date latest: -490
current location: 102B Greek
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture: Greek, Attic
technique: ceramic
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Greek
type: Ceramic
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CREATORS
* Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BCE) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1982-06-20T04:00:00
The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1966-
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RELATED WORKS
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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." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 8 (October 1966): 318 - 325.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 318-325
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152115
Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 32-33
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 20
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n42
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Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page number: p. 21, plates 32-34, 35, I
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 23
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n43
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
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page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14, fig. 16
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 8
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Carpenter, Thomas H. Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
page number: fig. 93
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page number: p. 71, fig. 19
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page number: PL.31, NO.47
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Barringer, Judith M. "Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted." Classical Antiquity 15, no. 1 (1996)
page number: p. 73, fig. 29
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March, Jennifer R. Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology. London: Cassell, 1998.
page number: p. 153, fig. 54
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page number: p. 792, no. 3204
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: p. 116, no. 11
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Barringer, Judith M. The Hunt in Ancient Greece: Judith M. Barringer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. .
page number: Figs. 92-93, pp. 168-169
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Oakley, John Howard. Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
page number: plate 4a
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Franklin, David. Director's Choice:The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012.
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page number: pp. 12-13
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
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Williams, Dyfri. "Beyond the Berlin Painter: Toward a Workshop View." In The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. J. Michael Padgett,J ed., 144-187. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, Connecticut: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017.
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page number: Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 87-88, fig. 79.
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