ECL-Bm.8:36-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.8:36-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Calydonian boar hunt
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 8. 36 and 37 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
36: the participants journey to the hunt. On left stands draped old man, who looks right at Atalanta and gestures left. After Atalanta is a bearded man, who leads a hound on a leash and holds an axe in his left hand. A second hound precedes him. Behind these figures are three youths, two of whom carry hunting nets. Then the Dioscuri move right, the one in the foreground gesturing to a man on right.
37: the hunt itself. The boar emerges from behind a tree trunk on left. Two men stand far right looking left, while a huntsman sinks to the ground wounded by the tree. Two hounds rush against the boar from left, as Meleager bends to the attack. Atalanta stands by him on right and further right a huntsman prepares to strike the boar with his dagger/spear. There is another huntsman in the background on left behind Meleager.
37: the hunt itself. The boar emerges from behind a tree trunk on left. Two men stand far right looking left, while a huntsman sinks to the ground wounded by the tree. Two hounds rush against the boar from left, as Meleager bends to the attack. Atalanta stands by him on right and further right a huntsman prepares to strike the boar with his dagger/spear. There is another huntsman in the background on left behind Meleager.
Content (object)
drawing
urn
urn
Content (note)
See inscription on back the relief is described as on an 'urna'
Dimensions
height (actual size): 398mm
width (actual size): 547mm
width (actual size): 547mm
Inscription
Campiglia Villa Pamfilia. Urna in una piazzetta a fianco del palazzo verso levante written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
B 4 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated
In the album in which the drawings are held is written: No. 36/No. 37 1 A 2
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated
In the album in which the drawings are held is written: No. 36/No. 37 1 A 2
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• RR (III ; 245.1)
• ASR (III.2 no. 235)
• Rossi
• ASR (III.2 no. 235)
• Rossi
