The Louvre’s appeal to purchase Cranach’s painting

The Louvre asks  donors to help buy a masterpiece of Lucas Cranach, The Three Graces.

Henri Loyrette, the director of the Louvre Museum, says that they have assembled three-quarters of the sum needed. The painting remained in private collections since its creation in the sixteenth century and has been kept since 1932 by the same owner in France. Director of Paintings at the Louvre Vincent Pomarède says: “It is a work at the same time fun, troubling, mysterious, and extremely sensual.”

The price of the small painting is four million euro, and the Louvre is short of  one million euro. Another Cranach’s painting The Three Graces is at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, in Kansas City, USA.