Three nude Graces stand close together before a soft, open landscape, each holding a golden sphere. Barely 17 centimetres square, the panel is the young Raphael's first known treatment of the female nude seen from front and back, often linked to an ancient marble group in Siena Cathedral. It may once have been paired with his Vision of a Knight.
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The central Grace turns her back to us while her sisters face forward. Their golden spheres have been read as the apples of the Hesperides.
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