94 ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER BY THE PAINTER OF THE LOUVRE CENTAUROMACHY The capture of Helen. Theseus on horseback, carrying a spear, pursues Helen and her sister Clytemnestra who both flee to the right. Reverse: Three draped youths. Ca. 470-460 BC. H. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm.); W. 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.); Diam. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) Ex French collection. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XX, 2009, no. 104. For the abduction of Helen on Attic vases see H. Kahil, LIMC, vol. IV, nos. 48-52. It is interesting to compare the two dramatically different treatments of the myth by this painter: nos. 92 and 94.
95 ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER BY THE NAPLES PAINTER Orpheus, seated upon a rocky outcrop, plays his lyre, flanked by two Thracian warriors; at the right a third warrior holds his horse’s bridle. Reverse: Two draped youths flank a draped female. Ca. 450-430 BC. H. 17 in. (43.2 cm.); W. 16 1/4 in. (41.2 cm.) Ex M.D. collection, Antwerp, Belgium, acquired in the 1970s. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XXI, 2010, no. 144.
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For a near identical depiction on a column krater by this painter see: Hamburg 1968.79, published in J. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, 450.21 ter; H. Hoffmann, Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 14-15 (1970) “Orpheus unter den Thrakern,” 31-44, figs. 1-2; M. Padgett, "Phineus and the Boreads," Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 3 (1991), 25, fig. 8.