Lekythos with Depiction of Eos and Tithonus
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Found at Gela, Italy;
With Jacob Hirsch, by 1933 [1];
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] Jacob Hirsch, PhD. (1874–1955) was born in Munich, studied at Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome, and then founded a dealership in Munich in 1897. He moved to Lucerne in 1919 and founded Ars Classica in 1922. In 1931, he opened Jacob Hirsch Antiquities in New York. At some point, he also had a gallery in Paris. He handled coins and antiquities but also had his own collection. See Hadrien Rambach, “A List of coin dealers in nineteenth-century Germany,” in A Collection in Context. Kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer, ed. Henner Hardt and Stefan Krmnicek (Tübingen, Germany: Tübingen University Press, 2017), 69–70, hal-04345662. See also “Dr. Jacob Hirsch, 81, An Authority on Art,” New York Times, July 5, 1955, 29.
John Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 1007.
Sophia Kaempf-Dimitriadou, “Die Liebe der Götter in der attischen Kunst des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.,” Antike Kunst, Beiheft 11 (1979): 18, 89, no. 163.
Carina Weiss, “Eos,” in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 3 (Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1986), 767, plate 573.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 117.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 12, fig. 30.
Robert Cohon with Karin Jones, “Ancient Greek Ceramics,” in Ceramics: Highlights from the Collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 62, (repro.).
