The Three Graces (The Three Graces)
The Three Graces (The Three Graces) c1899 by French Painter Édouard Bisson (1856 – 1939); is known for is idealized and romanticized paintings of women in atmospheric landscapes.
This beautiful painting that depicts three young women that are the Three Graces of Greek Mythology; said to be the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome and according to Greek Poet and Philosopher Hesiod were: Aglaia which is Brightness, Euphtosyne which is Joyfulness, and Thalia which is Bloom
They are sitting on the edge of a cliff that is high up in the sky huddled together with two of them side by side and the third behind them looking at an approaching cherub that is carrying in its left hand a branch with two apples and in its right hand another apple.
The young women that is dressed in a flannel like blue dress with pink and white embroidered flowers, a blue headband and pink roses in her red hair and around right should; is extending her right arm out toward the cherub while holding a tree branch in her right hand.
Her sister with dark brown is wearing a white silk dress with a violet floral sash, seems to be saying something to the cherub; while the third sister who is sitting behind them, is wearing a tan dress and has a golden ribbon in her medium brown hair, is waving at the approaching cherub with a light pink scarf that is in her right hand which flows over her right shoulder and down her back.
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Edouard Bisson waard berne yn Parys yn 1856 en wie in learling fan de Frânske skilder Jean-Léon Gérôme en syn meast bejeftige studint. Hy wie in skilder fan sjenrescènes, women’s portraits and maritime scenes, en wie diel fan 'e lette akademyske perioade.
Edouard Bisson keunstwurk krige populariteit om de 1900s, wint in protte prizen ynklusyf in brûnzen medalje by de Exposition Universelle yn 1900 en hy waard Chevalier fan it Legion of Honor yn 1908.
Bisson-keunstwurk is typysk foar it keunstwurk fan 'e Akademyske smaak populêr yn Parys oan' e beurt fan 'e tweintichste ieu, dy't de skientme fan froulju yn La Belle Epoque wjerspegele.
Hy eksposearre geregeldwei yn de Salon oant syn dea yn 1939, en syn skilderijen waarden faak reprodusearre troch hjoeddeiske graveurs en kranten.