The Three Graces (Raffael)
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| The three graces |
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| Raphael , approx. 1503–1505 |
| oil on wood |
| 17.1 x 17.1 cm |
| Musée Condé , Chantilly (France) |
The Three Graces is a painting by the Italian painter Raffael that is now on display in the Musée Condé in the northern French city of Chantilly . The date of creation of the picture is unknown. It is certain that Raphael created it between 1503 and 1505 after studying with Pietro Perugino in Urbino . It is likely to be the first representation of the naked woman's body from the front and back in Raphael.
The picture represents the Charites of Greek mythology . It is widely believed that the artist was inspired to create this picture by a marble statue in the Piccolomini library in the cathedral of Siena . This view of things is countered by the fact that the three graces were a very frequently dealt with in Raphael's time and that in terms of style it shows a much stronger influence of the Ferranes school . It first appears in an inventory of Cardinal Scipione Borghese in 1693 and is mentioned together with the vision of a knight . A scientific analysis of the image has shown that originally only the figure on the left held a golden apple, while the hand of the figure in the middle was on the shoulder of the figure on the right. The original painting could therefore have been a processing of the judgment of Paris , with Paris depicted in the painting Vision of a Knight .
The painting has the same dimensions as the vision of a knight , which can be seen today in the National Gallery of London. For this reason, it is assumed that both works originally belonged to a diptych .
Provenance
The picture was in the Villa Borghese in Rome until 1800 . In view of the approaching French troops, the Borghese family sold it to Commissioner Henry Reboul , who brought it to France. He sold it to a certain Woodburn who brought it to England. There it changed hands several times until it was acquired in 1885 by Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale for 625,000 francs. Since then it has been located in Chantilly Castle and can be viewed there in the Santuario, in the vicinity of the work Madonna d'Orléans, also created by Raphael .
literature
- Elisabeth de Boissard and Valérie Lavergne: Chantilly, musée Condé. Peintures de l'École italienne . Réunion des musées nationaux, 1988, ISBN 2-7118-2163-3 , pp. 125-127 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bodkin, Thomas: The Approach to Painting. READ BOOKS, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4446-5858-3 , pp. 107 .
- ↑ Champlin, John Denison and Charles Callahan Perkins: Cyclopedia of painters and paintings . C. Scribner's sons, 1913, p. 163 .
- ↑ a b James Patrick: Renaissance and Reformation . Marshall Cavendish, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7614-7650-4 , pp. 1183 .
- ↑ Les trois grâces. (No longer available online.) Domaine de Chantilly, archived from the original on July 9, 2014 ; accessed on February 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e Le tre Grazie di Raffaello Sanzio. Arte.it, accessed February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Muntz, Eugene: Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times . Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7661-9396-3 , pp. 76-77 .
- ↑ Cartwright, Julia: Early Work of Raphael . Kessinger Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4254-9624-1 , p. 16 .
- ↑ Bodkin, Thomas: The Approach to Painting. READ BOOKS, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4446-5858-3 , pp. 108-108 .
- ^ Base Joconde of the French Ministry of Culture: LES TROIS GRACES, notice complète. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ F.-A. Gruyer: Chantilly, Musée Condé: Notice des peintures . Braun, Clément et cie, Paris 1899, p. 62 .
