The Fates Spinning Marie’s Destiny

The Fates Spinning Marie’s Destiny is an oil on canvas painting and is 394 x 153 cm. Peter Paul Rubens(1577–1640) created the piece in 1622-25. This art piece depicts the three fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sitting below Jupiter and Juno, who are used as the avatars of King Henry IV of France and his wife Marie de’ Medici. Marie de’ Medici commissioned this piece in 1621 to decorate the Luxembourg Palace in Paris, and it was finished between 1622-25. The painting now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.