Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence

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Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence

Charles MeynierLinkedCulture matchlcp-7848001a38e1

Date
1800
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
France, late 18th-early 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
163040

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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. 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.

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Credit line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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.

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