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The Judgment of Paris

1602

Joachim Anthoniz Wtewael

(Dutch, 1566–1638)
Culture
Netherlands
Medium
oil on copper
Measurements
Framed: 25.5 x 30.5 x 3 cm (10 1/16 x 12 x 1 3/16 in.); Unframed: 15.4 x 20.5 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1984.14
Public Domain
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Location
213 Dutch Painting
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The artist dated and signed this work on a rock at the bottom right of the painting.

Description

The Trojan prince Paris was asked to determine which goddess was the most beautiful. Hera (tothe left of the group) offered him political power, and Athena (seen from the back), military prowess, but Paris awarded the golden apple to Venus, the goddess of love, who promised him Helen, the most beautiful mortal in the world.
A horizontally oriented oil painting is crowded with people with light skin tones in a dark forest of muted browns. At our right, Paris, wearing a red hat, proffers a golden apple to three nude women, one with her back to us. Above, a winged man in a red cloak descends. To the left, nude figures lounge near a cornucopia. Dogs and livestock scatter beneath a dense, shadowy canopy of trees.

The Judgment of Paris

1602

Joachim Anthoniz Wtewael

(Dutch, 1566–1638)
Netherlands

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