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Contemporary with the group of the Tomba degli Auguri and the Tomba delle Iscrizioni is the Tomba del Barone, discovered at Corneto in 1827 and named, as already mentioned, after Baron Kestner. After the paintings of this tomb Stackelberg executed a fine water-colour, and Thürmer a number of drawings, now in the University of Strasburg. The style—both in the shape of the heads and in the treatment of the draperies—is still Ionic, but the proportions are more slender, probably owing to Chian or Attic influence.
Composition and technique are both unique in the paintings of this tomb. We content ourselves with reproducing one main wall, the left ([fig. 14]), where a black horse with light grey hoofs, mane, and tail, is led by a man wearing red boots and a brown mantle lined with green. He is speaking with one hand raised to a woman in a long grey chiton, a brown mantle lined with green, and a brown cap. Then comes a man with green boots leading a brown horse.
Fig. 13. BACK WALL IN THE TOMBA DELLE LEONESSE
After a drawing in the Helbig Museum
Fig. 14. LEFT MAIN WALL IN THE TOMBA DEL BARONE
TOMBA DEL BARONE