This is one of four rectangular panels that decorate the ceiling painted by Orazio Gentileschi, for Queen Henrietta Maria, for the ceiling of the Great Hall at the Queen's House Greenwich, c. 1636-8. It depicts two muses seated on dark clouds, Euterpe (Muse of lyric poetry) to the left, dressed in a gold and white dress, holding a recorder in her right hand; to the right Calliope (Muse of epic poetry) in crimson and white holding a tablet and stylus.

The image of the complete ceiling is an attempt at arranging photographic reproductions of the canvases in their original location at The Queen's House during the 1980s.