Engraving  c. 1789

221 x 152 mm

After The Three Graces, a grisaille painting by Peter Paul Rubens, done between 1620 and 1623, which was originally acquired by Cardinal Leopoldo de Medici. At the time of the engraving c. 1789 by Jean Massard (1740-1822), the Rubens painting was housed in the Uffizi Collection and was moved to the Galleria Palatina in 1928. Published in Tableaux, Statues, Bas-Reliefs et Cammées de la Galerie de Florence et du Palais Pitti, 1789. 

The three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome,  Euphrosyne, Aglaia and Thalia, whose attributes include  joy, beauty, creativity, fertility, and charm, have long been associated with the arts, dance, music and poetry.