Column Krater with Standing Figures

Description This krater (a vase for mixing water with wine) by the Walters Painter depicts a woman holding a spindle. A bearded man faces her, and a youth stands behind her with his right hand extended. The artist's drawing is known for stiff drapery folds, stylized hands, and prominent chins. The frieze showing a bull between two lions on the neck of the vase is rare on red-figure column kraters.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/27/1987	Treatment	x-ray

Exhibitions

• Déjà Vu? Recurrence. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2007-2008.

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [cat. no. 233]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902