Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Artist/Maker

English: Louvre F 51 Painter (name piece)

Français : Peintre de Louvre F 51 (vase éponyme)

Description

English: Heracles fighting Triton. Side A of an black-figure Attic hydria, ca. 540 BC.

Français : Combat d'Héraklès et de Triton. Face A d'une hydrie attique à figures noires, v. 540 av. J.-C.

Dimensions H. 42.3 cm (16 ½ in.), Diam. 34 cm (13 ¼ in.)

Credit line Campana Collection; purchase, 1851

Accession number F 51

Location Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 42, case 7

References Beazley, ABV 313,1; Add2 84

Photographer/source Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), own work, 2008-06-07

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See also

Pederastic courtship, Louvre F 51

Pederastic courtship, Louvre F 51



Heracles / Hercules Gallery


Mythology Images

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