WALL AROUND CASE B. Blue Monkey and Papyrus

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/1/30/1/1
Artist Émile Gilliéron fils
Year c. 1928
Dimensions 44 x 66 cm
Medium painting
Location Ashmolean Museum
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One of a number of paintings in the exhibition from the House of the Frescoes, excavated in 1923. It shows a monkey in a rocky landscape. The blue colour of the monkey is thought to depict hair.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 447-450, fig. 264

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 20