The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love

1797 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache over black chalk underdrawing; squared in black chalk

Dimensions 46 × 33.2 cm

In 1797 François-Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède, an industrial textile manufacturer, commissioned Meynier to paint nine canvases featuring Apollo and the Muses for a large room in his home in Toulouse. Meynie...

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