# Venus and the Three Graces Surprised by a Mortal

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BLANCHARD, Jacques](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 170 x 218 cm

## Commentary

Jacques Blanchard, who unfortunately died young, developed the sensuous richness of the Venetian masters with a great deal of seductive talent. His qualities made him a remarkable and highly appreciated painter of female nudes. In the present painting the artist&#39;s model is evidently Rubens, whose late nudes he must have known. Blanchard was not a mere eclectic, for out of his borrowings he composed a style of his own which makes him one of the most attractive painters of his generation.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of Charity](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/allegory-of-charity-rdad8231625935f>)
- [Angelica and Medoro](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/angelica-and-medoro-r5c12486db08b18>)
- [Bacchanal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/bacchanal-r68e12a997fac01>)
- [Danae](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/danae-r2e3f0d4f6296d9>)
- [St Cecilia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/st-cecilia-r3a8a06a0fc6d86>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/st-jerome-r6f013537ea5a09>)
- [Tobias Healing the Blindness of His Father](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/tobias-healing-the-blindness-of-his-father-rd32de9fa8f86f0>)
- [Venus and Adonis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchard-jacques-r8eddf9a544bb84/venus-and-adonis-rbc25073867e771>)

## Attribution

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