http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/794140/resize%3Aformat%3Dfull;jsessionid=4E3DF64FE7BE334F5E1C209AE9D852CBThe Three Gracesabout 1620Georg PetelGilded bronzeSeveral of the sculptures of the German sculptor, Georg Petel, are interpretations of two-dimensional compositions by the Flemish baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). This group is certainly inspired by Rubens's Three Graces in the Vienna Academy Museum (painted in about 1620-21). He made an ivory carving of the same group which was listed in the 1635 inventory of the Duke of Buckingham, the present location of which is unknown; it is possible that the bronze group was cast after this ivory. A later bronze cast is in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig (Bro. 181). The figures, with their raised arms and flat palms, originally supported either a shell or a basket of flowers or fruits. Sculpture30.5000000000 Centimeter5.0800000000 Centimeterhttp://collections.mfa.org/objects/detailsrdf/49009;jsessionid=4E3DF64FE7BE334F5E1C209AE9D852CB