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Three partially draped nudes, the Three Graces of Antiquity – Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia – seem to be floating on clouds. They were daughters of Zeus and the Three Graces were often associated with pleasure, chastity and beauty. The composition repeats in reverse a 1638 painting of the same subject by the Italian Baroque artist Francesco Furini, which is now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg. A member of Furini’s studio may have reused the artist’s cartoon (or large-scale preparatory drawing) to create this work. Furini was one of the leading Florentine painters of the first half of the seventeenth century, known for his sensual female nudes and ’smoky' tonal effects. His interest in classical sculpture is evident in his many mythological and allegorical paintings of the 1620s and 1630s.
Title
The Three Graces
Date
after 1638
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 220 x W 175 cm
Accession number
NG6492
Acquisition method
Presented by Sir Alfred Mond, 1920
Work type
Painting
