The Three Graces (Van Loo)
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| Artist | Charles-André van Loo |
| Year | c.1765 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 250 cm × 204 cm (98 in × 80 in) |
| Location | Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceau |
The Three Graces is a 1765 rococo oil painting by the French artist Charles-André van Loo. Depicting a scene from Greek Mythology, it portrays The Three Graces.[1] [2]
Van Loo had produced an earlier version of The Three Graces which he exhibited at the Salon of 1763. Despite receiving a warm reception from newspapers, the influential Madame Pompadour expressed a dislike for it. Van Loo then set about producing another painting for the subsequent Salon of 1765, although in the event it was exhibited after both his and Pompadour's deaths.[3] The three women were apparently modelled after Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, a former mistress of Louis XV and two of her sisters.[4]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Château de Chenonceau in Centre-Val de Loire.[5]
References
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[edit]- Bearne, Catherine Mary Charlton. A Court Painter and His Circle: François Boucher. McBride, Nast & Company, 1914.
- Calhoon, Kenneth Scott. Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
- Hyde, Melissa Lee. Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics. Getty Publications, 2006.
- Tressider, Jack. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Loire Valley. Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2010.
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