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The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love
Creator
Charles MeynierFrench painter · 1763–1832
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- 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
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 344913
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