Agache: Les parques (The Fates) | Dickinson College Commentaries

The Fates (left) are seated next to a yarn winding frame (right). Nona (Greek Clotho, background left) holds a distaff with wool in her right hand and appears to be spinning thread with her right. Seated in front of her (foreground center) Decima (Greek Lachesis) winds the spun thread on a yarn winding frame. Morta (Greek Atropos, foreground left) watches cupping her chin in her left hand. In her right hand she holds her scissors in her lap.

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The Parcae (Greek Moirai) wind the thread of fate. Oil on canvas by Alfred Agache, Palais Beaux-Arts Lille P 1639.

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c. 1882 CE

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Palais Beaux-Arts Lille

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