The Judgement of Paris Size:small was probably carefully worked out

was probably carefully worked out in the early 1630s until the artist was happy with the final composition

Attributed to Huysmans ('housman') in the Cartwright inventory

until 1905

An early work comparable with the Landscape with a Rider resting in the Museum der Bildenden Künste

but in this case the evidence is not conclusive

The Judgement of Paris Size:small was probably carefully worked outThe shepherd Paris judges Juno, Venus and Minerva and awards the golden apple to Venus (Ovid 'Heroides', XVI). According to the artist's notebook, work on the picture began in September 1716, Adriaen van der Werff working on it for sixteen weeks and his brother and assistant Pieter van der Werff for ten weeks. It was acquired in 1719 by the French Regent, the duc d'Orleans. An earlier treatment by Van der Werff of the same subject, dated 1712, was