Hydria (Water Jar) (480-470 BCE): Artwork and History

Hydria (Water Jar) (480-470 BCE) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Attributed to the Orchard Painter Greek; Athens.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

This vase depicts the winged goddess Eos (Dawn), wearing a diadem, chiton and himation, pursuing an unnamed youth who is probably Tithonos: she has caught him by the arm. He wears a himation and holds a lyre in his left hand. On the left of the scene a boy, heavily wrapped in his himation, flees to the left, but turns his head back to the right: he was perhaps intended to be a schoolmate.

Object facts

• Title: Hydria (Water Jar)
• Date: 480-470 BCE
• Artist attribution: Attributed to the Orchard Painter Greek; Athens
• Place of origin: Greece
• Medium: terracotta, red-figure
• Dimensions: 33.5 × 33.7 × 27.6 cm (13 3/16 × 13 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
• Type: Vessel
• Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
• Reference number: 1889.95

Collection credit

Museum Purchase Fund

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