The Judgement of Paris Size:small Wouwermans was the son of

Wouwermans was the son of a painter

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

Van Huysum's paintings often bear a double date

until 1905

The Judgement of Paris Size:small Wouwermans was the son ofThe 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