A black chalk drawing of the Muses Clio, Euterpe and Thalia. The drawing has been squared for transfer. This is apparently a preparatory study for the painting, now in the Louvre, by Le Sueur for the Hotel Lambert, Paris. This painting is one of four showing Muses which was made for the Chambre des Muses, the decoration of which Le Sueur took over after the death of the painter Francois Perrier in 1650. The present drawing is in reverse orientation to the finished painting, but there seems no reason to doubt its status as a preparatory drawing for the scheme: it may indicate a change of mind on the part of Le Sueur as his ideas developed, perhaps in response to the need to balance the adjacent composition of the Muses Melpomene, Erato and Polyhymnia (also in the Louvre). Another drawing relating to the scheme, for the figure of Clio, is in the Louvre.

Inscribed in brown ink in an eighteenth-century hand: Le Sueur.