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Venus Victorious. Pierre-Auguste Renoir. ased on his image of the goddess in his painting The Judgement of Paris. It shows her holding the golden apple she has just won by being judged the most beautiful of three goddesses by Paris. Note: On left, Claude Monet's, Sailboats on the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1874 on left and Legion of Honor, San Francisco. On right, Waves Breaking. Claude Monet. 1881. It was painted on the coast of Normandy and follows the example of Gustave Courbet's marine paintings as in having been executed with the painter having faced out toward the sea.