According to Antonio Canova; S. XX.

According to ANTONIO CANOVA (Italy, 1757 - 1822); 20th century.
"The three graces".
Marmoline.
Presents illegible signature on the base.
Measurements: 103 x 60 x 30 cm.
This bronze sculpture is a reproduction of the sculptural group of the Three Graces by Antonio Canova, which is in the Hermitage Museum and was commissioned by Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife.
This work represents the three Graces, the Greek Carites, goddesses associated with love, beauty, sexuality and fertility, understood as life-generating forces. Their names were Aglaya ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Joy") and Thalia ("Feasts"), and they were considered daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, although other versions mention Hera, Dionysus or Helios and the naiad Egle as their progenitors. Homer wrote that they belonged to the retinue of Aphrodite, although they were also associated with the underworld and the Eleusinian mysteries. In Roman mythology, the Caritas were identified with the Graces and adopted the names Castitas, Pulchritude and Voluptas, that is, the virgin, the wife and the lover. We thus find two different readings, although one evolved from the other: a triad composed of three aspects of a concept, in the Greek case, and a Latin triad where the three aspects of the woman are symbolized, thus becoming a symbol of the generation of life. The representation of the three Graces was frequent from the Renaissance onwards, both for its hermetic character, related to the mysteries, aesthetics and Greco-Latin thought, and for the more mundane fact that its iconography allowed the representation of three beautiful naked girls.