# The Judgment of Paris [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CLAUDE LORRAIN]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 112 x 150 cm ## Commentary The Judgment of Paris appeared on the art market in 1966. It was recognized as an autograph work, whose composition Claude had recorded in the drawing Liber Veritatis 94, and it can be considered a masterpiece of Claude's mature period in the 1640s. The figures in this painting are among the largest and most painstakingly executed in the artist's work. He worked out his ideas for their arrangement in a vigorous pen study. Claude borrowed certain details from Renaissance models, mining the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/raimondi/paris\_ju.html'\)" href="/html/r/raimondi/paris\_ju.html">engravings by Raimondi</a> after Raphael and by <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghisi/judparis.html'\)" href="/html/g/ghisi/judparis.html">Ghisi<a> after Giovanni Battista Bertano. ## Related artworks - [A Mediterranean Seaport]() - [A Seaport at Sunrise]() - [Aeneas's Farewell to Dido in Carthago]() - [Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helion \(Parnassus\)]() - [Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus]() - [Coast Scene with the Rape of Europa]() - [Embarkation of St Paula Romana at Ostia]() - [Erminia and the Shepherds]() - [Flock of Sheep in the Campagna]() - [Forest Path with Herdsmen and Herd]() - [Harbour Scene at Sunset]() - [Harbour Scene]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()