The Judgement of Paris Size:small An early work comparable with

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

Van Huysum's paintings often bear a double date

Wouwermans was the son of a painter

Related to - though not directly copied from - a work of 1691 by Willem van de Velde the younger

until 1905

The Judgement of Paris Size:small An early work comparable withThe 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