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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.
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 ...
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, ...
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)
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 ...
For such a famed historical figure, Napoleon has made only fleeting appearances in movies since Abel Gance’s 1927 silent film. Stanley Kubrick had grand designs for a Napoleon epic that went unmade.
Bonaparte Devant le Sphinx (Bonaparte Before the Sphinx) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt (1798–1801) raised the profile of Egypt and its civilization in France, and started a period of Egyptomania