Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros and Jacques-Louis David.
Five canvases of the Muses, commissioned by François Boyer-Fonfrède,[2] but after his bankruptcy they were purchased by General Nicolas Antoine Xavier Castella de Berlens and transferred to his château de Wallenried in Jura, Switzerland, where they remained for roughly 180 years.[3] They were subsequently transferred to the Cleveland Museum of Art, where conservator Dean Yoder dedicated five years to cleaning and in-painting the damaged works.[4] They are currently on public display in Cleveland.
Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy, 1798, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
^Cleveland Museum of Art Staff Writers (2012-12-10). "Apollo and the Muses". Cleveland Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
^Ghislain de Diesbach, Un nid de souvenirs en Suisse, in "Connaissance des Arts", n° 192, February 1968, pages 62–67.
^Cleveland Museum of Art Staff Writers (2012-12-10). "Apollo and the Muses". Cleveland Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
External links
Exhibition of Meynier's work on La Tribune de l'art Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
Media related to Charles Meynier at Wikimedia Commons