Title: The Muse of Painting
Object type: Painting
Date: 1870
Culture: American
Artist:  John La Farge 
Artist bio: American, New York 1835–1910 Providence, Rhode Island
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 49 1/2 x 38 1/4 in. (125.7 x 97.2 cm)
Credit line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Walters, 1909
Department: The American Wing
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Painting, term: Women, term: Allegory