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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1928.169
People
The Master of the Argonaut Panels, Greek
Previously attributed to Jacopo del Sellaio, Italian (Florence, Italy 1441 - 1493 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Cosimo Rosselli, Italian (1439-1507)
Title
The Judgment of Paris
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1480
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231546

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
Dimensions
65.1 x 111 cm (25 5/8 x 43 11/16 in.)
frame: 99.4 x 169.4 x 24 cm (39 1/8 x 66 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Butler, England, by 1887, sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, May 25-26, 1911, lot 26]; to [Ehrlich Galleries, New York and Blakeslee, 1913]; to [Ehrlich Galleries, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, 1915, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1928
Object Number
1928.169
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School; Including a Collection of Water-Colour Drawings by Joseph M. W. Turner, R.A., exh. cat., William Clowes and Sons, Ltd. (London, 1887), p. 47, no. 201
  • The New Gallery, Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300 to 1500, exh. cat. (London, 1893), p. 27, cat. no. 142
  • Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580), Ernest Leroux (Paris, 1905), p. 638
  • George Harold Edgell, "[Review] The Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge", Art and Archaeology (July 1915), Vol. 2, pp. 15, 17, repr. p. 17
  • Frank Jewett Mather Jr., "Bride-Chests of Renaissance Italy", Arts & Decoration (December 1915), Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 73-76, 104, repr. at frontispiece [as by Cosimo Rosselli]
  • Paul Schubring, Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Ein Beitrag zur Profanmalerei im Quattrocento, Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann (Leipzig, 1915), pp. 261-262, no. 168 [mistakenly identified as Johnson Collection, Philadelphia]
  • William N. Bates, "Archaeological News: Notes on Recent Excavations and Discoveres; Other News", American Journal of Archaeology (January - March 1918), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 73-100, p. 97
  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), pp. 80-82, cat. no. 13, repr. [as by Paris Master]
  • Raimond Van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, 1923-1938), Vol. X, pp. 569-570; Vol. XII, p. 411 [as Jacopo del Sellaio]
  • Licia Ragghianti Collobi, Lorenzo Il Magnifico e le Arti: Mostra d'Arte Figurativia Antica, exh. cat. (Florence, 1949), p. 70, no. 8 [as by Biagio D'Antonio]
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), pp. 135 [as by Master of San Miniato], 186 [as by Jacopo del Sellaio]
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 169, p. 150, repr.
  • Everett Fahy, "The Argonaut Master", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (December 1989), pp. 285-300, pp. 290-291, 297-298, repr. as fig. 7
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 118, 312, repr. b/w cat. no. 605
  • Pavla Savická, "The Winged Goddess: Iconographic Gloss on an Italian Renaissance Panel from the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague", Umení : casopis Kabinetu theorie a dejin umení Ceskoslovenske akademie ved. (2013), 6, LXI, pp. 520-528, repr. in color p. 522 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School; Including A Collection of Water-Colour Drawings by Joseph M. W. Turner, R.A. [Winter Exhibition], Royal Academy of Arts, 01/03/1887 - 03/12/1887
  • Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300 to 1550, The New Gallery, 01/01/1893 - 01/01/1894
  • Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitive Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, 02/26/1915 - 03/18/1915
  • Lorenzo Il Magnifico e le Arti: Mostra d'Arte Figurativa Antica, Palazzo Strozzi, 05/21/1949 - 10/31/1949
  • Re-View: S422-423 Western Art of the Middle Ages & Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/02/2016 - 07/18/2018

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