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The Three Graces

Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn

The Three Graces

1590-1600

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Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn

The Three Graces

1590-1600

Physical Qualities Oil on wood panel, 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (34.9 x 28.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of C. C. Fulton Leser
Object Number 1948.171
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1948; The Baltimore Museum of Art on loan, 1948; Collection of C.C. Fulton Leser (1900–1949), Baltimore, MD; Probably painted for Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Prague, c. 1596–1608.
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 220–225, no. 16.4.
Eliška Fučíková, Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Kaiser Rudolfs II (Freren: Luca Verlag, 1988), p. 254.
“Rest, Renew, Restore,” BMA Today (Winter-Spring 2010), p. 16, ill.
DaCosta Kaufmann, Thomas. The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Kuchynka R. Dětrich Ravesteyn, dvorní malíř Rudolfa II. Časopis společnosti přátel starožitností českých v Praze 30 (1922): pp. 80–83.

Bredius, Abraham and E.W. Moes. “De Schildersfamilie Ravesteyn.” Oud Holland 9 (1891): 207–220.

Pigler, André. “Notice sur Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn.” Oud Holland 63, no. ¾ (1948): pp. 74–77.

Fučíková, Eliška ed. Rudolf II and Prague: The Court and The City. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Wisse, Jacob. “Prague during the Rule of Rudolf II (1583–1612).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rupr/hd_rupr.htm (November 2013).

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Kaiser Rudolfs II. Freren: Luca Verlag, 1988. (Münster: The Three Graces cat. no. 139).

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Eros und Mythos: Kunst am Hof Rudolfs II (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 1995).

Fučíková, Eliška. Studien zur Rudolfinischen Kunst : addenda et corrigenda. Germany: Umění, 1979.

DaCosta Kaufmann, Thomas. Variations on the Imperial Theme: Studies in Ceremonial Art and Collecting in the Age of Maximilian II and Rudolf II. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.

Inscribed: None.

Artist

Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn

1564–1628

Dutch, c. 1565/1570 - c. 1619/1629
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