The Judgement of Paris Size:small His reputation remained exceptionally high

His reputation remained exceptionally high throughout the 18th century and into the 19th: when Dulwich's founders

until 1905

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

and in the centre the ruins of the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor

but in this case the evidence is not conclusive

The Judgement of Paris Size:small His reputation remained exceptionally highThe 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