Three-figure relief with Orpheus, detail of Orpheus

Three-figure relief with Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes

Three-figure relief with Orpheus, detail of Hermes

Three-figure relief with Orpheus, detail of Orpheus

Three-figure relief with Orpheus, detail of Hermes

Three-figure relief with Orpheus, detail of Eurydice

Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre
Title: Three-figure Group with Orpheus
Summary: Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Architectural
Category: Statuary group
Style: High Classical
Technique: Low relief
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 410 BC - ca. 400 BC
Dimensions: H. 1.22 m, W 0.90 m
Scale: Miniature (pictorial field)
Period: High Classical
In Group: Sculpture from the Altar of the Twelve Gods

Associated Building: Athens, Altar of the 12 Gods

Sources Used: Gadbery 1992, 487 (disassociates the reliefs from the Altar of the 12 Gods in Athens); Boardman 1985a, fig. 239; Ridgway 1981, 206ff.; Harrison 1977a, 421; Langlotz 1975, 91ff.; Harrison 1964, 76ff.; Charbonneaux 1963, 27; Anti 1959, 76; Götze 1938, 189ff.