With eyes closed in serene reverie and flowing classical robes caught mid-movement, a marble muse cradles her lyre against this dramatically lit black-ground real-photo postcard — a studio photograph of the sculpture Musik by the German sculptor Professor Ernst Herter, captured with the kind of theatrical chiaroscuro that made art-reproduction postcards the Instagram of the Wilhelmine era. Herter (1846–1917) was a celebrated Berlin academician whose allegorical figures adorned public buildings and galleries across Germany; this lyre-bearing figure of Music exemplifies his graceful Neoclassical style. The card carries the publisher's catalog number AE 2376 in the lower right corner, pointing to a German fine-art postcard house active in the early 1900s. A wonderful piece for collectors of sculpture postcards, German art history, or the golden age of the real-photo art card.