Hasselmann Painter's oinochoe boy on horseback 51

The Hasselmann Painter was an

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

red-figure Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 520 BCE and remained in use until the late 3rd century BCE. It replaced the previously dominant style of black-figure va ...

vase painter. He worked in the mid-5th century BC. The

Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology is a museum of ancient Mediterranean archaeology, primarily that of ancient Greek civilisation but with smaller collections of Egyptian, Etruscan and Roman items. It contains one of the most important collect ...

holds an important vase by the Hasselmann Painter showing a nude youth on horseback, purchased to mark the award of an honorary degree of

D.Litt. Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or ') is a terminal degree in the humanities that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor ...

to Sir John Beazley. The

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, within the university's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Founded in 1881 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, it ...

has a

pelike A pelike ( grc, πελίκη) is a one-piece ceramic container similar to an amphora An amphora (; grc, ἀμφορεύς, ''amphoreús''; English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characterist ...

showing two figures in conversation, the gift of Robert Brookings and Charles Parsons, 1904.Artwork detail.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012
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Hasselmann Painter's oinochoe of a boy on horseback at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology.
Ancient Greek vase painters Anonymous artists of antiquity 5th-century BC deaths Year of birth unknown {{AncientGreece-bio-stub