Charles Meynier

The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love

ca. 1797

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk on brown paper; squared in black chalk

Dimensions

18 1/8 x 13 1/16 in. (46 x 33.2 cm.)

Collection no.

2001.506

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Charles Meynier. The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love. Charles Meynier; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.