THE THREE GRACES ... why have i failed to make a scrapbook of the three ladies who inspired so much art ? ... better start right away with a painting by latecomer, LOVIS CORINTH ... and maybe then we can hark back to the origins ...

FIRST  ... painters need only the slightest of pretexts to rejoice in the female form and to IDEALIZE it ...

SECOND ... our THREE GRACES almost certainly originated in Ancient Greek mythology as THE THREE CHARITIES ... 

Before we go further ... THEOI.COM is your go-to source for all things greek-classical ...

THIRD ... As is typical of all mythologies, none of which are evidence-based, the content and meaning of every story evolves and alters with every telling ... it isn't really possible to define any myth as "the original" ... so perhaps "the earliest know version" is a better label

https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Kharites.html

ANTONIO CANOVA ...

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/38262

AUGUSTE MAILLOL

collateral damage in america to one of the graces sculpted by auguste maillol 

https://www.leviathanencyclopedia.com/article/Nymph_(Central_Figure_for_%22The_Three_Graces%22)

LUCAS CRANACH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Graces_(Cranach)

SANDRO BOTTICELLI

a section from the large painting, LA PRIMAVERA

HANS BALDUNG

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/harmony-the-three-graces/e909e7a1-1591-4bc1-a357-119c9b9d8eaa

RAPHAEL

RUBENS

AN UNKNOWN ARTIST AT POMPEII

TINTORETTO

RAPHAEL, again ...

RUBENS, again ...

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-three-graces/145eadd9-0b54-4b2d-affe-09af370b6932

RAPHAEL, again ...

PICASSO toyed with the theme ... here is a monochrome of THREE GRACES from 1923 ... and then came his THREE DANCERS of 1925 ...

FRANCOIS BOUCHER

WILLIAM ETTY

EDWARD BURNE-JONES ... two studies ...

https://www.eb-j.org/browse-artwork-detail/MjA0MDM=

LORD LEIGHTON

in bronze ... JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX

... TO BE CONTINUED ...