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Kant’s point of view when dealing with aesthetic judgment (judgments of taste) in the third Critique is transcendental: the Kantian question is whether such a judgment has the possibility of being universally and necessarily valid, and under what conditions. Kant’s text is thus far from the historical perspective on the arts that Hegel will develop. However, the conditions of possibility sought are those of judgments belonging to the experience of human individuals and to that of humanity over the centuries. This article focuses on the presence and stakes of this temporal aspect of the aesthetic reflective judgment and on the production of the Fine Arts in the first part of the third Critique.