A Campanian Red-Figured Neck-Amphora with Alkmene on the Pyre

Attributed to the Parrish Painter, circa 350-320 B.C.

Height 22 3/4 inches (57.79 cm).

Property from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, sold to benefit future acquisitions

Provenance:

Ephron Galleries, New York, prior to 1973.

Hartman's Auction, New York, 7 December 1973, Lot 1349.

Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 27 April 1976, Lot 200.

Frank Raysor (1943-2022), New York, 1976-1991.

Gifted to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 1991. [Acc. no NA.1991.213]

Published:

LIMC I, p. 554 (Alkmene, 7); p. 736 (Amphitryon, 3), pl. 593,1.

A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Third Supplement, London, 1983, p. 123, no. 147b.

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A Campanian Red-Figured Neck-Amphora with Alkmene on the Pyre

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