The Three Graces

Two nude women are shown frontally on either side of a third nude woman seen from the back at center. The hair of each is wreathed in braids. The women stand on a nearly flat, barren plane, with a small rocky outcropping at the lower right. The figures posed frontally hold sheaves of grass in one hand, while the central figure extends her arms across the other two, as if to embrace the one at left and to hand a small spherical object to the one at right.

The Three Graces

Medium:
Fresco
Dimensions:
53.3 cm wide, 60 cm high
Context:
Farm of Cuomo or Irace, Pompeii
Date:
1st century CE
Inventory Number:
MANN 9231
Lender:
National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Credit:
Image © Photographic Archive, National Archaeological Museum of Naples