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The Three Graces
Jean-François Janinet1786
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: The Three Graces
- Creator: Jean François Janinet (French, 1752-1814), Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, 1675-1741)
- Date Created: 1786
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.94
- Medium: Color wash-manner etching and engraving
- State of work: I/II
- Department: Prints
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Moselle Taylor Meals
- Collection: PR - Lavis manner
- Accession Number: 1977.94
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