PARIS, CAMILLE ADRIEN, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Ary Scheffer and of Picot. Medal, 3d class, 1874. Works: After Storm in the Campagna, Palatin Chapel at Palermo (1865); The Three Village Fates (1870); Bull of the Campagna (1874), Luxembourg Museum; Temple of Neptune at Latium (1876); Night in the Campagna (1878); Autumn in Fontainebleau Forest (1878), Bayonne Museum; Victorious Bull (1880); The Ford (1881); Morning in the Fields (1882); Pasture (1883); After the Fight (1884); Old Gate of Tibur in Rome (1886).—Bellier, ii. 202.
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Judgment of Paris, Rubens, Dresden Gallery.
PARIS, JUDGMENT OF, William Etty,
A. Fontaine, Narford Hall, Norfolk; canvas,
H. 6 ft. × 9 ft. Figures full-length, nude.
Paris, seated at left beside Mercury, hands
the apple to Venus, who is attended by Cupid;
at her right is Minerva; at her left,
Juno with her peacocks; at right, three
nymphs; at left, a satyr peeping from under
a curtain hung between trees. Royal
Academy, 1826; painted for Lord Darnley;
purchased after his death by C. W. Wass,
who sold it in 1843 to Mr. Fontaine. Engraved
by C. W. Wass.—Art Journal (1847),
224.
By Henry Peters Gray, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 4 ft. 2 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. Venus, partly nude, seen to knees, gazing languidly over her shoulder at Paris, who has the golden apple in his hand; at right, Cupid. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America.
By Rubens, Dresden Gallery; wood, H. 1 ft. 7 in. × 2 ft. The original of the larger picture in the National Gallery, London, and precisely like it with the exception that Paris has a hat on his head. It formed part of Rubens's estate and was purchased by Count H. von Bruhl, prime minister to the King of Poland, from whose collection it passed to the Dresden Gallery. Engraved by A. Lommelin; P. F. Tardieu; P. E. Moitte.—Réveil, viii. 526; Gal. roy. de Dresde, iii. 37.
By Rubens, National Gallery, London; wood, H. 4 ft. 9 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. Paris, seat-
