Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
1800
Charles Meynier
Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence, 1800. Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832). Oil on canvas; overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2003.6.1 Polymnia 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Meynier, Charles
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2003.6.1
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
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