Mural depicting the muse Melpomene (Tragedy), by Edward Simmons. Northwest Corridor, First Floor, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Top of mural reads "MELPOMENE"; artist signature reads "Copyright by Edwards Simmons 1896".
Artist is <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Emerson_Simmons&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Emerson Simmons (page does not exist)">Edward Emerson Simmons</a> (1852–1931). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/482_high.html">placed</a> the photograph in the public domain.
Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, LLC-DIG-highsm-03126 (original digital file), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/03100/03126u.tif">uncompressed archival TIFF version (92 MB)</a>, converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88.