ECL-Bn.15:126-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.15:126-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
'The Three Graces'
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
The group stands in a roofless rectangular niche. The three females are half-draped, their garments leaving their upper body bare. The central figure stands with her back to the viewer; her hair is elegantly arranged beneath a wreath of leaves. The figure on left raises her right foot on an overturned urn, from which pours water, and holds a bird against her leg with both hands; she looks down at the bird. The central figure raises her right foot on an urn, from which water flows, and holds up a bunch of corn ears and leafy branches in her left hand. Her right hand she stretches out towards the figure on right who holds fruit in the fold of her garment. There is a vase on the ground far right.
Beneath the statues is inscribed, on a tablet: TRIS GRATIAE. ILLA TURTUREM, ISTA FRUCTUUM/ OMNE GENUS, HAEC SPICAS, FERUNT/ UT INNUANT, NULLARUM AMORI MUTUO/ OPUM DEESSE COPIAM.
H. Cock excu. 1563
Beneath the statues is inscribed, on a tablet: TRIS GRATIAE. ILLA TURTUREM, ISTA FRUCTUUM/ OMNE GENUS, HAEC SPICAS, FERUNT/ UT INNUANT, NULLARUM AMORI MUTUO/ OPUM DEESSE COPIAM.
H. Cock excu. 1563
Content (object)
statue
Dimensions
height (actual size): 378mm
width (actual size): 299mm
width (actual size): 299mm
Inscription
See Description:
Beneath the statues is inscribed, on a tablet: TRIS GRATIAE. ILLA TURTUREM, ISTA FRUCTUUM/ OMNE GENUS, HAEC SPICAS, FERUNT/ UT INNUANT, NULLARUM AMORI MUTUO/ OPUM DEESSE COPIAM.
H. Cock excu. 1563
Beneath the statues is inscribed, on a tablet: TRIS GRATIAE. ILLA TURTUREM, ISTA FRUCTUUM/ OMNE GENUS, HAEC SPICAS, FERUNT/ UT INNUANT, NULLARUM AMORI MUTUO/ OPUM DEESSE COPIAM.
H. Cock excu. 1563
Inscription description
Written in ink on the back: 1.3.0
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Cock, Hieronymus, ca. 1510 - 1570 (Engraver)
Date
1563