The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 26, 2024

The Three Graces

The Three Graces

1786
(French, 1752–1814)
(Italian, 1675–1741)
Sheet: 50.5 x 33.5 cm (19 7/8 x 13 3/16 in.); Platemark: 44 x 32 cm (17 5/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Fonds Français 18ieme Siecle - XII.24.40
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

In addition to his work in printmaking, Jean-François Janinet was an amateur physicist and experimented with traveling by hot air balloon.

Description

Since ancient times, art critics had praised painters for their ability to portray subjects so lifelike that they might be mistaken for the real thing. The mastery of printing techniques that produced full-color images like this one featuring female nudes with remarkably naturalistic skin gave French printmakers new capabilities that for centuries had been the exclusive domain of painters.
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    Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).
    Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
    Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
    The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).
    French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).
    Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, 1969 - 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 4, 1979-January 27, 1980).
    Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).
  • {{cite web|title=The Three Graces|url=false|author=Jean François Janinet, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini|year=1786|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.94