Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence (Q60479780)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: mythological painting (Q3374376)
artist: Charles Meynier (Q970511)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin: France (Q142)
main subject: Polyhymnia (Q104425)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
commissioned by: François-Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède (Q50805157)
part of: Apollo and the Muses (Q60479765)
exhibition history: Salon of 1800 (Q59401597)
depicts: Polyhymnia (Q104425)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: CgEbOAF3DHenGw
Salons ID: 20666

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.6.1

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: 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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