Property from a Private Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Follower of Jacopo Zucchi
The Three Graces flanked by two vases
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 21, 04:01 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Follower of Jacopo Zucchi
The Three Graces flanked by two vases
inscribed, upper right: QUOD. NATVRA. / IN CHOAT. PERFI / CIT. GRATIA.;
inscribed on vase, lower left: NATURAE BONA;
inscribed on vase, lower right: CONCTA. VIDES
oil on panel
panel: 12 by 9⅜ in.; 30.5 by 23.8 cm.
framed: 16¼ by 14¾ in.; 41.3 by 37.5 cm.
Where acquired by the present collector.
Active in the Medici court in late sixteenth-century Florence, Jacopo Zucchi frequently produced small-scale panels for an erudite audience that included Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, in Rome. It was likely the latter who commissioned the original painting on copper (private collection) from Zucchi, on which the present composition is based.
As told in Hesiod's epic poem Theogony, the three graces, daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, personified feminine beauty and virtue: Euphrosyne embodied joy, Aglaea embodied radiance, and Thalia embodied prosperity. Their arrangement, with the two outer figures facing the viewer and the central figure seen from behind, derives from Hellenistic prototypes and recalls Raphael's depiction of the subject (Chantilly, Musée Condé, inv. no. PE 38).
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