Menelaus Paris Louvre G115

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Artist/Maker Kalliades as potter (signed), Douris as painter (signed)

Menelaus (centre-left) pursues Paris (centre-right) as Aphrodite (left) and Artemis (right) watch on. Side A from an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 490–460 BC. From Capua.

Dimensions H. 12 cm (4 ½ in.), Diam. 26.9 cm (10 ½ in.)

Credit line Former collection of Charles Hippolyte de Paravey; purchase in public auction, 1873

Accession number G 115
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 43, case 11
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2007)

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