Polyhymnia

Title: Polyhymnia
Description: A painting of the Greek muse Polyhymnia, holding a scroll and sitting with a stringed instrument next to her
Creator: Joseph Fagnani
Date Created: 1869
Medium: Oil on canvas
Provenance: The artist's estate with Somerville Gallery, New York (1873); subscribers to an association for its presentation to the museum: Emma Fagnani, Charles Fagnani, Courtlandt Palmer Jr., Charles P. Palmer, Mrs. Henry Draper, Edward S. Jaffray, Edward Clark, Thomas Lord, J. Warren Goddard, William B. Isham, and William T. Blodgett (1874)
Identifier: Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 74.45
Extent: 43 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (110.5 x 83.8 cm)