The Judgment of Paris

ca. 1812

Baron Jean Baptiste Regnault French, 1754-1829

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European: Influence of Ancient Greeks and Romans, Level 2, South Wing

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Title The Judgment of Paris

Artwork Date ca. 1812

Artist Baron Jean Baptiste Regnault

Life Dates 1754-1829

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 87 × 69 3/8 inches (221 × 176.2 cm) Framed: 95 5/8 × 77 1/2 × 3 3/8 inches (242.9 × 196.9 × 8.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, donation from Cristina and Henry Ford II

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 72.466

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Signed Signed, lower left: ch. Regnault

Inscriptions Inscribed across the Golden Apple of Discord, held by Paris: τη καλλίστη (the most beautiful)

Provenance

the artist, Baron Jean Baptiste Regnault;
March 1-3, 1830, (Ch. Paillot, Paris, France) auction M. le Baron Regnault [withdrawn from sale];
by descent to Jean-François Regnault, Regnault's third son.
July 2, 1928, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) by order of Mme. Nocard, possibly a descendent of one of the sons of Jean François Regnault;
purchased by M. Roger [for 14,400 francs];
1936, Mme. M. W. Lambert (Paris, France);
confiscated by the German National Socialist (Nazi) government and exported for the intended Führermuseum (Linz, Austria);
1953, M. Colombier (Paris, France);
1954, (Le Peletier, Paris, France);
1954, purchased by W.P. Chrysler (New York, New York, USA);
1972, (Shepherd Gallery (New York, New York, USA);
1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Landon, Charles-Paul. Annales du Musée et de l'école moderne des beaux-arts: Salon de 1812, vol. 2. Paris, 1812, p. 78.

Quatremère de Quincy, M.A.C. Suite du recueil de notices historiques. Paris, 1837, p. 49.

Bénézit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 7. 1954, p. 153.

Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Exh. cat., Portland Art Museum. Portland, 1956, pp. 45, 115, no. 71 (ill.).

French Paintings 1789–1929 from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, 1960, pp. 12 (ill.), 141, no. 4.

Brown, Christopher, and Keith Roberts. "Recent Museum Acquisitions." Burlington Magazine 115, no. 845 (August 1973): pp. 534-538; pp. 537, 543 (ill.).

La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement to Gazette des beaux-arts 81, no. 1249 (February 1973): pp. 1-273; p. 132, no. 474 (ill.).

De David à Delacroix: Le Peinture Française de 1774 à 1830. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1974, pp. 221, 576-577; English ed., pp. 221, 583-584, no. 152, (pl. 139).

French Painting 1774–1830: The Age of Revolution. Exh. cat., DIA, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Detroit, 1975, pp. 221 (ill.); pp. 583–584.

Sells, Christopher. "Jean-Baptiste Regnault's Judgment of Paris." Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 3/4 (1975): pp. 118-126; pp. 119-126 (ill.).

Sells, Christopher. “A Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Regnault.” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 3 (1975): pp. 14-24; p. 24.

Sells, Christopher. “A Late Work by Jean-Baptiste Regnault.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 8 (1976): pp. 87-95; p. 87.

Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 109, no. 80 (ill.).

Tomobe, N. Mythologie: Déesses et Trois Graces, Nu feminin dans l'Art, vol. 2. Tokyo, 1981, p. 113, (pl. 76).

An Aspect of Collecting Taste. Exh. cat., Gallery Stair Sainty-Matthiesen. New York, 1986, pp. 57-58.

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Baron Jean Baptiste Regnault, The Judgment of Paris, ca. 1812, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, donation from Cristina and Henry Ford II, 72.466.