# Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence

- By: Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.6.1)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2003.6.1/2003.6.1_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.