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Original watercolour of the idea for Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1861. Study for the head of Oedipus Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ingres, 1808.Oil on Canvas. Louvre, Paris. Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808–27, oil on canvas, 189 x 144 cm, Louvre. Oedipus and the Sphinx is a painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Originally a student work painted in 1808, it was enlarged and completed in 1827. The painting depicts Oedipus explaining the riddle of the Sphinx.
Caress of the Sphinx, 1896. Caress of the Sphinx (also known as Art) is an 1896 painting by the Belgian Symbolist artist Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921) famed for its depiction of androgyny. [1] The work is an interpretation of the French symbolist painter Gustave Moreau's 1864 painting Oedipus and the Sphinx. [2] [3] [4]
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (French: Bonaparte devant le Sphinx) is an 1886 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.It is also known as Oedipus (Œdipe).It depicts Napoleon Bonaparte during his Egyptian campaign, positioned on horseback in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, with his army in the background.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, 1864.Oil on canvas. Donated by Herriman to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. William Henry Herriman (7 February 1829 – 26 July 1918) [1] [2] was an expatriate American art collector in Rome who, on his death, left important works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Brooklyn Museum.
The Parisian Sphinx; The Parnassus; Persephone (painting) Polyphemus (Sebastiano del Piombo) Prometheus (Orozco) Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan; Prometheus Bound (Rubens) Prometheus Bound (Thomas Cole) Psamathe (Leighton) The Psyché (My Studio) Psyche Abandoned (painting) Pygmalion and Galatea (Girodet) Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme ...
He painted small replicas of Paolo and Francesca and Oedipus and the Sphinx. [86] In 1862 he completed a small oil-on-paper version of The Golden Age. [87] The last of his important portrait paintings date from this period: Marie-Clothilde-Inés de Foucauld, Madame Moitessier, Seated (1856), Self-Portrait at the Age of Seventy-eight and Madame J.-
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