A landscape with the judgment of Paris in the foreground left. Mercury has taken Paris to the gods to settle a beauty contest between goddesses. He must choose who is the most beautiful: Juno (with the peacock as her attribute), Minerva (in armor) or Venus (with Cupid beside her). Paris chooses Venus and presents her with a golden apple as a prize. In the background a village to a river, Judgment of Paris, print maker: Nicolaes de Bruyn, (mentioned on object), Gilles van Coninxloo (II), (mentioned on object), publisher: Pieter Schenk (I), (mentioned on object), print maker: Antwerp, publisher

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