"Les Trois Grace" at the Louvre
After appealing to the French company to help fund up to Jan. 31 acquisition of "Les Trois Grace" (1531 version), by Lucas Cranach the end of the fundraising campaign was anticipated. On December 17 will have been reached one million euros that was missing - a total of four million - to buy the work of German painter to the current owners.
Lucas Cranach, "Les Trois Grâces, 1531 Musée du Louvre, campaign fundraising
Lucas Cranach unveiled its composition an ironic look on one of the traditional themes of Renaissance art -" The Three Graces "- by challenging through the introduction of a suggestive purple velvet hat, the central figure, the conventional reading of the time.
In this regard, the Director Pomarède Vincent, head of the department of French paintings from the museum, has no doubts: "It is a funny, confusing, mysterious and very sexy ... I think it will become one of the most popular works of Louvre. "
In this regard, the Director Pomarède Vincent, head of the department of French paintings from the museum, has no doubts: "It is a funny, confusing, mysterious and very sexy ... I think it will become one of the most popular works of Louvre. "
Lucas Cranach, "Die drei Grazien" c.1530 oil on wood, 57.5 × 38 cm, private collection
Lucas Cranach, "Les Trois Grâces" 1531 oil on canvas, 37 x 24 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lucas Cranach, "The Three Graces" 1535 oil on wood, 49.2 x34, 4cm, M. Nelson-Atkins Art, Kansas City
Lucas Cranach, "Selbstbildnis" [Self Portrait], 1550 oil on wood, 67 × 49 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Lucas Cranach Kronach, Germany, 1472
(Lucas Sonder, or Sunder Sunder or )
m. Weimar, Germany, 1553
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