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Each Grace has a fancy hairdo and bling, and two of them are also clinging to a piece of saran wrap.
One Grace also has a jaunty hat, making her the head Grace. She is also the one with by far the best posture.
The Grace on the right, realizing that she needs to step up her game, is stretching her quads.
In 2010, a French family put the painting up for sale. The Louvre had 3m Euro ready to go, but the price was 4m. The museum then set up a dedicated website explaining in detail why they had to have it. 'It could become kind of an icon for the museum' argued one of the curators, who obviously missed the part of the curator orientation where they talk about the Mona Lisa. Luckily, 7,000 donors coughed up the last 1m in less than a month. Score!
Unfortunately, the 'let's all pitch in to buy Cranach's three Graces' website has since been taken down and the domain, http://www.troisgraces.fr, is for sale.
Cranach painted several versions. If you can't make it to Paris, maybe go see Cranach's Three Graces at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. More full bodied Graces are available from Rubens, and cool marble hard bodied ones from Canova.
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The Three Graces is a 1531 oil on beech panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Other versions of the subject by the artist from 1530 and 1535 are in a private collection and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City respectively.
It remained in private collections until - under risk of being sold abroad - it was declared a national treasure (i.e. subject to an export bar). The owners' asking price was 4,000,000 Euros, which needed to be raised before the end of January 2011. Three-quarters of this was raised from the museum's own funds and large donations from two French businesses.
An appeal to raise the remaining 1,000,000 Euros was launched on 13 November 2010 on the theme of "Tous mécènes" (loosely translated as "Everyone can be an art patron"). It proved highly successful, with around 7,000 people making donations, and the whole sum was raised by 17 December 2010, at which date the Louvre bought the work. It was first publicly displayed in 2011 and assigned the catalogue number RF 2011-1.
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The grace on the left needs to work on her posture