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Hydria (Water Jar)

Ancient Greek · about 515-500 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

Said to be found in Cerveteri, 1878 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Myth and Legend in Classical Art," Gallery 101A, March 1, 1987-August 31, 1987.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Human Figure in Early Greek Art," Gallery 101A-Preview Part I, September 1, 1988-September 24, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection," Gallery 120A-Part II, January 13, 1989-February 21, 1990 (object added to gallery September 24, 1989).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994-February 6, 2012.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art," Gallery 151, November 11, 2012-May 2, 2022.

Literature

William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat'y Mch. 9, 1889- , (unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 23.
Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 47, no. 374.
J. D. Beazley, "Some Inscriptions on Vases: V," American Journal of Archaeology, 54, 4 (October-December 1950), p. 315, no. 7.
C. Clairmont, Das Parisurteil in der antiken Kunst (Zurich 1951), pl. 22.
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 164 (18 bis).
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978), p. 673 (kalos name).
A.W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases (Warminster: Aris and Phillips 1979), p. 148 no. 23E 9 and p. 149 24E 6; fig. 10x.
John Griffiths Pedley, Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 20, 1 (1994), pp. 39-40 (ill.).
Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.
Lyndsay Coo, "A Judgment of Parodies? 'Momus' on a Black-Figure Hydria in Chicago," in Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada (vol. 19, no. 2, 2022), pp. 175-195.

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