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The Judgment of Paris [recto]

The Judgment of Paris [recto] by Guillaume Lethière

Medium

watercolor over black chalk on wove paper, squared in black chalk for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 45.6 x 59.4 cm (17 15/16 x 23 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1998.100.1.a

Rights

Public Domain

About the Artist

Guillaume Lethière · 1760–1832

**Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (1760–1832)** was a French neoclassical painter born in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, to a free woman of color, Marie-Françoise Dupepaye, and Pierre Guillon, a white colonial royal notary. His early life reflected the complexities of colonial society; he and his sister were not legally recognized until 1794. In 1774, at age fourteen, his father brought him to France, where ...

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