Judgement of Solomon
Why Judgement of Solomon matters
This entry exists as a research and verification record rather than a confirmed artist profile. Across museum catalogues, auction records, and standard art-historical references, "Judgement of Solomon" or "The Judgement of Solomon" appears consistently as the title of a recurring biblical subject, painted, etched, or otherwise depicted by many separate artists over several centuries, including Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Sebastiano del Piombo, Matthias Stom, Luca Giordano, Marc Chagall, and Leon Kossoff, among others. No dossier search turned up a documented individual artist, living or historical, whose personal or professional name is "Judgement of Solomon." This page therefore records what could and could not be verified, so that the slug is not mistaken for a real artist record.
Biography
No birth date, birth place, death date, or death place could be located for an artist named "Judgement of Solomon" in any biographical source, obituary, museum record, or gallery statement. Standard references treat the phrase exclusively as a title attached to the works of named artists rather than as a person's name. Because no individual could be verified, no biographical narrative is offered here. Readers looking for information about a specific painting called The Judgement of Solomon should consult that painting's catalogue entry, which will name its actual artist, for example Poussin's 1649 canvas in the Louvre or Sebastiano del Piombo's early work at Kingston Lacy.
Critical reception
No verbatim, attributable critical quotation about an artist named "Judgement of Solomon" could be located in major art press, museum text, or auction-house catalogue material available to this research. Critical commentary on individual paintings titled The Judgement of Solomon exists in scattered museum and exhibition catalogue entries, but it is addressed to the named artist of each specific work rather than to a single figure of this name.
Market
No auction record could be attributed to an individual artist named "Judgement of Solomon." The highest documented auction price located for any painting sharing this title belongs to Matthias Stom's The Judgement of Solomon, which sold for GBP 428,750 at Sotheby's, London, on 5 July 2017, as part of the J. E. Safra collection, and was acquired by the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. That result is part of Matthias Stom's market history, not evidence of a market for a separate artist by this name.
What collectors should know
Collectors who encounter a work offered under the title The Judgement of Solomon should verify the actual artist named in the lot description, provenance, and any catalogue raisonne or authentication program specific to that artist, since the title alone identifies a subject, not a market participant. This entry should not be treated as a standing artist profile until a verifiable individual using this name, if one exists, is documented with primary sources.
Further reading and resources
Data current as of 2026-07-13.
