Scenes from the story of Paris. Apollonio di Giovanni
tempera on panel
15 3/4 by 60 3/4 in.; 40 by 153.6 cm
Provenance
Giovanni P. Morosini, Riverdale-on-Hudson, until 1932;
By descent to his daughter, Miss Giulia Morosini, Riverdale-on-Hudson;
By whom bequethed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
By whom de-accessioned, New York, Christie's, 15 October 1992, lot 13, where acquired by a private collector.
Literature
E.S. King, "The Legend of Paris and Helen," in Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, ii, 1939, pp. 61 ff (as Apollonio di Giovanni);
H.B. Wehle, "The Bequest of Giulia P. Morosini; Paintings and Miniatures", in Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, xxxiv, 1939, pp. 19-20 (as Apollonio di Giovanni);
H.B. Wehle and M. Salinger, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, New York 1940, p. 39 (as an unknown Florentine painter, third quarter of the 15th century);
N.B. Rodney, "The Judgement of Paris," in Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, XI, 1952, reproduced p. 59 (as Apollonio di Giovanni);
F. Zeri and E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: Florentine School, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1971, pp. 103-05, reproduced (as Apollonio di Giovanni);
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, New York 1972, p. 12 (as a studio work);
E. Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, pp. 66-67, cat. no. 32, reproduced fig. 176 and a detail fig. 248 (as Apollonio di Giovanni);
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 115, reproduced vol. II, p. 19 (as Apollonio di Giovanni).
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