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The Judgment of Paris
Joachim Wtewael1602
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: The Judgment of Paris
- Creator: Joachim Anthoniz Wtewael (Dutch, 1566–1638)
- Date Created: 1602
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (Harari & Johns, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), Private collection, England?, Probably the Marques de Fuente Hermosa, Spain
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.14
- Medium: oil on copper
- Inscriptions: signed lower left: IO. WTE / WAEL. FE / 1602 [TE, AE in monogram]
- Fun Fact: The artist dated and signed this work on a rock at the bottom right of the painting.
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Netherlands
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
- Accession Number: 1984.14
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