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Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
1800
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, late 18th-early 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
