Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 12

Unknown
Painting The Judgement of Paris 18th century

1700s

$8,514.75
$10,643.4420% Off
£6,329.77
£7,912.2120% Off
€7,120
€8,90020% Off
CA$11,877.89
CA$14,847.3620% Off
A$12,884.83
A$16,106.0320% Off
CHF 6,775.56
CHF 8,469.4520% Off
MX$156,782.28
MX$195,977.8420% Off
NOK 84,705.42
NOK 105,881.7820% Off
SEK 79,887.62
SEK 99,859.5220% Off
DKK 54,223.12
DKK 67,778.8920% Off

About the Item

Oil on Canvas. The large painting depicts the famous mythological episode of the Judgement of Paris, the event that helped trigger the Trojan War. Paris, a Trojan prince, was called upon to settle the dispute among the three goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite over who deserved the golden apple to be awarded to "the fairest," thrown by the goddess Discord on the table of the gods. Each of the three goddesses promised Paris a reward in exchange for the apple, and he chose Aphrodite, who had promised him the most beautiful woman in the world, namely Helen the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. In the large scene, Paris is seated in the center, between the legs of the goddess Aphrodite, to whom he holds out the apple with her arm raised; Aphrodite with one hand is reaching for the apple as she turns upward to indicate to the god Cupid, hovering above her, to carry out her task. On the left, the other two goddesses give their backs, indignant and frowning, while above, the god Mercury decrees Aphrodite's victory, pointing to her with his staff, the caduceus symbolizing the 'agreement reached, and the god Cupid, on Aphrodite's instructions, prepares the fiery stral with which he will make Helen fall in love with Paris. Completing the scene is a putto pouring water from a vase from above, perhaps a kind of baptism, or consecration of choice. The figures, imposing and strongly carnal, fill the scene in an intertwining of bodies, which with the variation in the colors of the incarnations-pale those of the deities, brighter that of the shepherd prince, (the only mortal in the fact!), but played all in a 'single color scheme-, they realize color homogeneity. Restored and re-tinted, the painting is presented in a styled frame.
  • Creation Year:
    1700s
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 102.37 in (260 cm)Width: 67.33 in (171 cm)Depth: 2.76 in (7 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Milan, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU680315723692

More From This Seller

View All
Painting with a Healing Scene 17th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on copper. Flemish school of the seventeenth century. The painting, attributed by oral tradition to Frans Francken the younger (1581 -1642), depicts a miraculous healing perform...
Category

17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Painting with Historical Subject 17th-18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. The scene takes place at a military camp: outside a tent on the left a leader of an army, probably Greek, is receiving offerings of a group of men, poor and ragged, ...
Category

Late 17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Painting The Conversion of St. Paul 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. School of Luca Giordano. The scene depicts the conversion of St. Paul, as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles. While on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians, ...
Category

17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dipinto Apollo e Dafne XVIII secolo
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Scuola toscana del XVIII secolo. La grande scena racconta la storia tragica di Apollo e Dafne, raccontata nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio. Secondo il mito il dio Apollo, av...
Category

18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Painting The Suicide of Portia 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. The woman depicted in the scene can be traced back to Portia, the Roman noblewoman who was the wife of Brutus and thus lived in the first century BCE: according to le...
Category

18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Painting Cain and Abel 17th-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern-Italian school of the 17th-18th centuries. The widely known biblical scene of the quarrel between the two brothers, sons of Adam and Eve, which later results ...
Category

Late 17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

You May Also Like

Classical Naturalistic Style Italian Allegory Study
Located in Houston, TX
Classical style allegorical painting with puti and monarchy type figures floating within the clouds. The canvas is framed in a decorative gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 43.5...
Category

20th Century Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Neoclassical oil on canvas nude painting contemporary Roman style 'll bath'
By Henri-Pierre Picou
Located in Palermo, IT
Attributable to HENRI PIERRE PICOU. (FRENCH !(1824-1895) Le Bain oil on canvas, with gold leaf frame, 1900. Big picture Now available Shipping with triple box. Any information cont...
Category

20th Century Italian Empire Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Antique Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Sheffield, MA
The antique unframed oil painting on canvas is in the Renaissance style. Two ladies are conversing with the man on the right. Canvas is stretched...
Category

Antique Late 18th Century European Renaissance Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Banquet with Figures Memento Mori Italian 17th Century After Giovanni Martinelli
Located in Milano, IT
Antique Painting of 1600s Banquet with Figures Memento Mori after Giovanni Martinelli death comes to the banquet table-memento mori circa 1635. The oil on canvas painting (lined with...
Category

Mid-17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oak, Oil

Large Italian Mythological Grisaille Painting Tritons and Nereids 18th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Large and beautiful Italian grisaille painting with a mythological theme in Renaissance taste, second half of the 18th century. The painting is unsigned. Painted in oil on canvas, to...
Category

Late 18th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Allegorical Scene with Mythological Figures"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist (19th Century) "Allegorical Scene with Mythological Figures" Materials & Condition Medium: Oil on panel Technique: Grisaille (monochrome painting) Framed Dimensio...
Category

19th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel