Shop art print and framed art The three Graces by Raffaello

The Three Graces is a painting by Raphael currently housed at the Musée Condé in Chantilly. It is one of the first secular paintings by the painter. They are traditionally known as the Graces, Roman goddesses representing Joy, Abundance and Splendour. The exact date of this painting is not known, but it was probably painted in Urbino after a short stay in Florence towards the end of 1504. Of the same dimensions as the painting The Knight's Dream, now in the National Gallery in London, it may have been either the counterpart in a diptych or the reverse. They are mentioned for the first time in an inventory of the Borghese collection in 1633, but they were probably already separated from each other. The painting remained in the Villa Borghese until the arrival of French troops in Rome in 1800. The Borghese family then sold the work to the curator Henry Reboul, who took it to France. He sold it to a certain Woodburn, who took it to England. The painting passed successively into the collections of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lord Ward and Lord Dudley. It was bought by the Duc d'Aumale in December 1885 for 25,000 pounds. It was then placed in a small room in the Château de Chantilly, the Santurario, along with the Madonna de la Maison d'Orléans by the same painter, a panel by Fra Filippo Lippi and forty miniatures by Jean Fouquet for the Book of Hours by Étienne Chevalier. The attribution of the painting to Raphael has never been called into question, but the theme presented remains [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

« The three Graces » is kept at Musee Conde, Chantilly, France.

 

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