Category:Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence (Charles Meynier - Cleveland Museum of Art)

**Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence**
	painting by Charles Meynier (2003.6.1)
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Instance of	painting;
Part of	Apollo and the Muses;
Main subject	Polyhymnia;
Depicts	Polyhymnia
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	mythological painting;
Location	Cleveland Museum of Art, Wade Park, University Circle, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Country of origin	France;
Creator	Charles Meynier;
Commissioned by	François-Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède;
Collection	Cleveland Museum of Art;
Inventory number	2003.6.1 (Cleveland Museum of Art);
Inception	1800;
Width	177 cm;
Height	275 cm;
Authority file
	Q60479780; Internet Archive ID: clevelandart-2003.6.1-polyhymnia-muse-of-e; Google Arts & Culture asset ID: CgEbOAF3DHenGw
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Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence (Charles Meynier - Cleveland Museum of Art)

Artist



Alternative names	Meynier; M. Meynier
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	25 November 1768	6 September 1832
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris
Authority file	: Q970511 VIAF: 54417590 ISNI: 0000000001100696 ULAN: 500020752 LCCN: nb2007019640 WGA: m/meynier GND: 117570427 SUDOC: 101590814 BNF: 14959169q RKD: 55808 J9U: 987007426956505171 Koninklijke: 317783734 WorldCat

Title

Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence

Part of

Object type

Genre

Date

1800

Medium

Dimensions

height: 275 cm (108.2 in)

; width: 177 cm (69.6 in)

Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

	Native name	Cleveland Museum of Art
	Location	Cleveland, United States of America
	Coordinates	41° 30′ 32″ N, 81° 36′ 42″ W
	Established	1913 (Officially opened in 1916)
	Website	www.clevelandart.org
	Authority file	: Q657415 VIAF: 125472356 ISNI: 0000000419367873 ULAN: 500209693 LCCN: n78087650 NLA: 35029027 WorldCat

Current location

201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture

Accession number

Place of creation

France, late 18th-early 19th century

Object history

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.

Exhibition history