# The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love

- By: Charles Meynier (French, Paris 1768–1832 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1797
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk on brown paper; squared in black chalk
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 13 1/16 in. (46 x 33.2 cm.)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/344913)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP801375.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)