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  2. Oedipus and the Sphinx - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus answered: "Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick". Oedipus was the first to answer the riddle correctly and, having heard Oedipus' answer, the Sphinx was astounded and inexplicably killed herself by throwing herself into the sea.

  3. Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres) - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  6. Bonaparte Before the Sphinx - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Wikipedia

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    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.-

  8. File:Oedipus & Sphinx.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. List of paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Wikipedia

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    Self-Portrait at Seventy-Eight, 1858, 62 x 51 cm.. This is an incomplete list of paintings by the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867). ). Although he considered himself a classicist in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David and had a longstanding rivalry with Eugène Delacroix, some of his later works included elements of romanticism and orien