Landscape with the Judgment of Paris

Artist Cornelis Massys (South Netherlandish, ca. 1510-1556/1557)

Place of OriginNetherlands

Dateabout 1545

Dimensions12 3/4 × 17 1/8 in. (32.4 × 43.5 cm)
Frame: 18 × 22 × 1 7/8 in. (45.7 × 55.9 × 4.8 cm)

MediumOil on wood panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1935.57

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 19

Published References

Art News, XXXIV, Feb. 1, 1936, p. 7, repr.

Godwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 7, repr. p. 8.

Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 86, June 1939, repr.

Grosser, Maurice, Critic's Eye, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1962, p. 169.

de Callatay, E., "Cornelis Massys paysagiste, collaborateur de son pere et de son frere et auteur de l'album Errera," Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique Bulletin, XIV, 1965, pp. 51, 54, 63, fig. 2.

Faggin, Giorgio T., La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento, Florence, 1968, p. 29, fig. 61.

"Paintings in Northern Europe 1450-1550," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 13, no. 2, Summer 1970, p. 38, repr.

Dunbar, Burton L., The Landscape Art of Cornelis Massys, Ann Arbor, Univ. Microfilm #72-26672, 1972, pp. 29, 250-251.

Friedlander, M., Early Netherlandish Paintings, (ed. H. Pauwels), IXb, 1973, pp. 132, 138, no. 204.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 106, pl. 87.

Dunbar, Burton L., "The Landscape Art of Cornelis Massys," Bulletin des Musees des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1-3, 1974-1980, p. 115.

Gibson, Walter S., "Mirror of the Earth: the World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting, Princeton, 1989, p. 22, fig. 2.27.

Serck, L., Henri Bles & la Peinture de paysage dans les Pays-Bas meridionaux avant Bruegel, (unpublished PhD dissertation) University Catholique de Louvain, 1990, pp. 1241-1251, no. B.3.

Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, French and Flemish Primitive Exhibition, no. 34.

Bloomington, IL, Bloomington Art Association, Old and Modern Masters, Contemporary Americans, 1939.

Toledo Museum of Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Two Cities Collect, 1948, no. 25.

Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, Northern Masters, 1952.

Akron Art Institute, Masterpiece Series, 1953.

Champaign, Ill., University of Illinois, Great Traditions in Painting from Midwestern Collections, 1955, no. 23.

Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan, February 1958-February 1959 (a long term loan of a small group of paintings for specific teaching purposes and to establish a standard of value for future collection at Ann Arbor Museum).