The Three Graces is a 1765 rococo oil painting by the French artist Charles-André van Loo.
[1] [2] Van Loo had produced an earlier version of The Three Graces which he exhibited at the Salon of 1763.
Despite receiving a warm reception from newspapers, the influential Madame Pompadour expressed a dislike for it.
Van Loo then set about producing another painting for the subsequent Salon of 1765, although in the event it was exhibited after both his and Pompadour's deaths.
[3] The three women were apparently modelled after Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, a former mistress of Louis XV and two of her sisters.