Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
Charles Meynier · 1800 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Polyhymnia is one of the nine muses in Greek mythology and a patron of dancing or geometry. She is portrayed here standing in front of a bust of the Athenian orator Demosthenes. This painting belongs to a cycle of five works commissioned by businessman François Boyer-Fonfréde for his home in Toulouse. Meynier was trained in a studio known by the students of Jacques-Louis David as the atelier of the "perruques" (wigs), a name given to royalists or conservatives of the period.
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Details
- Maker
- Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
- Date
- 1800
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 001A ArtLens Exhibition
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
