Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
Charles Meynier
1800
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Paintings
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
France, late 18th-early 19th century
About
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.
