Study for "Judgment of Paris," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Artists

Description

This sketch shows Paris awarding the Apple of Discord to Venus while Minerva and Juno look on. This panel was not used at the Museum of Fine Arts. An oil sketch of another version of the subject is in the collection of the Huntington Library.

Dimensions

94.6 x 88 cm (37 1/4 x 34 5/8 in.)

Provenance

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.