The Judgment of Paris

c. 1645

Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18 x 26.2 cm (7 1/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.115.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roethlisberger 1968, no. 597

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Originally in an album put together in 1700 by Claude's heirs, known as the Wildenstein Album; Prince Don Livio Odescalchi; by descent through Odeschalchi family; purchased by Wildenstein, 1960; purchased by Norton Simon, 1968 (separated from album); Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • The Wildenstein Album, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1970 (no catalogue).

1971

  • The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971, no. 24.

1975

  • The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Art Museum, Princeton and tour, 1975, no. 24 (not illustrated).

2007

  • Claude Lorrain - The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006-2007, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1962

  • Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain, The Wildenstein Album. Paris, 1962: no. 25.

1968

  • Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Drawings. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

2006

  • Rand, Richard. Claude Lorrain--The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum. London, 2006: 158, fig. 105.

Wikidata ID

Q64540128

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