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Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
Charles Meynier1800
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
- Creator: Charles Meynier (French, 1768-1832)
- Date Created: 1800
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.)
- Provenance: In 1819, Nicolas-Antoine de Castella, general of the Swiss regiments in France, purchased the paintings and placed them in his Castle of Wallenreid, Switzerland; direct descendants; Pierre de Castella, Mannaz, Switzerland.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.6.1
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Fun Fact: 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.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, late 18th-early 19th century
- Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 2003.6.1
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