Terracotta Kylix Attributed to the Colmar Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2018

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup),ca. 500 B.C.


Object Details

Attributed to the Colmar Painter

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 500 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: H. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
diameter 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1916

Accession Number: 16.174.41


Interior, youth with javelin
Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium (drinking party)

The Colmar Painter belongs to the circle of artists who were influenced by Euphronios and Onesimos. Like many artists working just before and after 500 B.C., he favored athletic scenes because they permitted the depiction of the nude body in a great variety of poses. Behind the youth here is a stone shaft on a plinth that represents the goalpost in the gymnasium.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/249152