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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.
English: Jean-Léon Gérôme, pendant paintings of Napoleon in Egypt at Hearst Castle: Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (1886) and Bonaparte in Cairo (c. 1886), purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1898.
Napoleon I as Emperor; Napoleon I at Fontainebleau on March 31, 1814; Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne; Napoleon in Imperial Costume; Napoleon in the Wilderness; Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps; Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau; Napoleon on the Bellerophon; Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit; Napoleon's Tomb (painting)
The Great Pyramids and the Sphinx were famous. But Upper Egypt wasn't as well known. That changed when the savants arrived. "The whole army, ... Decades before Napoleon's invasion, ...
The Sphinx in profile, 2023 The Sphinx as seen by Frederic Louis Norden before Napoleon's time (sketches made in 1737, published 1755) Examination of the Sphinx's face shows that long rods or chisels were hammered into the nose area, one down from the bridge and another beneath the nostril, then used to pry the nose off towards the south ...
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, or Oedipus (1886). Oil on canvas, 61.6 x 101.9 cm (24.2 x 40.1 in). Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California ... Napoleon I, ymerawdwr ...
Joaquin Phoenix “walked out” of the world premiere of Napoleon in Paris on Tuesday night (14 November).. The actor, who portrays the famous French emperor in Ridley Scott’s upcoming ...