Cleveland Museum of Art
Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence
Charles Meynier
- Date
- 1800
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France, late 18th-early 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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