( fl c. 500–c. 460 BC). Greek vase painter and potter. Active in Athens, he worked in the Red-figure technique, and his exceptionally long career extended from the end of the Archaic period until late in the Early Classical period. Of his extensive output (at least 280 vases are attributed to him by Beazley), he signed some 40, most as the painter, though some as potter. However, this does not mean that he established his own workshop only later in his career, since his signatures as a potter occur on early vases, and painting was clearly his principal activity. He evidently also had a considerable school from early in his career. Douris must have been well known among other vase painters, for his name regularly occurs in their work. The picture on the inside of a cup by Onesimos (from Cerveteri; Brunswick, ME, Bowdoin Coll. Mus. A., 1930.1) shows a woman with a skyphos clearly signed by Douris. His name appears quite frequently in the work of the Cartellino Painter, and a cup by the Triptolemos Painter (from Cerveteri; Berlin, Staatl. Museen Preuss. Kultbes., 2286), who must have been his pupil, is signed with his name, possibly to increase its value.

Part of the Vase painters family

• Douris (c. 500-460 BC)
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 6(i)(b): Attic Red-figure pottery: Late Archaic
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 6(i)(c): Attic Red-figure pottery: Early and High Classical
  • patrons and collectors
    • Bonaparte: (10) Napoléon
    • Palagi, Pelagio
  • pupils
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(vi)(e): Pottery inscriptions: Other texts
  • works
    • Genre, §1: Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(vi)(d): Pottery inscriptions: Artists’ signatures
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(vi)(f): Pottery inscriptions: Scripts
    • Mythological painting and sculpture, §1: Classical antiquity, before c AD 300