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Lot 30
An Attic black-figure hydria
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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An Attic black-figure hydria
Attributed to the Antimenes Painter, circa 530-510 B.C.
36.5cm high
36.5cm high
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Provenance:
Jean Mikas Collection, Paris, early 1960s, thence by descent.
with Georges N. Krimitsas, Paris.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 25 November 1998.
The Antimenes Painter is one of the most prolific black-figure painters working in the first generation of red-figure predominantly between 530-510 B.C., appearing on hydriae and neck amphorae. The Antimenes Painter offered detailed studies of popular narratives, particularly Herakles, as evident in the predella on this hydria where he lunges at a lion. This fragmentary hydria depicts the wedding chariot of Peleus and Thetis, with Dionysus, Apollo, Leto and Artemis, on the main scene of the body. The shoulder is decorated with a young warrior mounting a chariot, a seated man, a hoplite, a Scythian, and onlookers.
For an example of a similar scene with white body depicted on a hydria and attributed to the Antimenes Painter, see Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: L320 (Beazley Archive no. 320028). For a similar black-figure, black body scene, with the addition of Hermes, on a hydria, see San Antonio (TX), Art Museum: 86.134.42, Beazley Archive no. 19192.