Title: The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1797
Artist:  Charles Meynier 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1768–1832 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
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.)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Musical Instruments, term: Poetry, term: Love, term: Muses