Herakles strangling snakes Louvre G192

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Artist/Maker Berlin Painter
The child Herakles strangling the snakes sent by Hera. Detail from an Attic red-figured stamnos, ca. 480/470 BC. From Vulci, Etruria.
Credit line Durand Collection, 1836
Accession number G 151
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 43, case 23
References Beazley, Attic Red-figured Vase-Painters (1963), 208, 160
Photographer/source Jastrow (2007)

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