Wedding Painter

A man and a *hetaera* (her status indicated by the money-bag hanging from the wall) having sexual intercourse. Interior painting of a red-figure *kylix*, c. 480/470 BC. Spain, private collection.

Wedding Painter is the conventional name for an ancient Greek vase painter active in Athens from circa 480 to 460 BC. He painted in the red-figure technique. His name vase is a pyxis in the Louvre depicting the wedding of Thetis and Peleus.

Works

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

krater 1388 • pyxis 14908

Barcelona, Museo Arqueologico

fragment of a bowl 584 • fragment of a bowl stand 4339

Berkeley, University of California, Robert H. Lowie Museum

bowl 924 A

Berlin, Antikensammlung

lip cup F 2547

Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico

fragment of a bowl 373 • bowl 374

Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum

bowl 144 A

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

bell krater 95.26

Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

bowl 1845

Compiègne, Musee Vivenel

bowl 1090 • bowl 1104

Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina

skyphos T 441

Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco

fragment of a bowl 11 B 10 • fragment of a bowl 17 B 7 • fragment of a bowl 20 B 11 • fragment of a bowl PD 28 • fragment of a bowl PD 172 • fragment of a bowl PD 289 • fragment of a bowl PD 563

Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

Fragment of a bowl

London, British Museum

hydria E 226

formerly Munich, private collection Paul Arndt

bowls

formerly New Haven, Clairmont

pyxis

New York City, Metropolitan Museum

pyxis 39.11.8

Padula, Salerno, Museo Archeologico della Lucania Occidentale nella Certosa di Padula

Fragment of a bowl stand

Paris, Musée National du Louvre

bowl CP 10952 • fragment of a bowl CP 11605 • fragment of a bowl CP 11606 • fragment of a bowl CP 11607 • fragment of a bowl CP 11608 • fragment of a bowl CP 11609 • fragment of a bowl CP 11610 • fragment of a bowl CP 11611 • bowl G 269 • bowl G 630 • pyxis L 55