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English: One of the four sphinxes spitting out water carved by Henri-Alfred Jacquemart and added during the French Second Empire at the foot of the Fontaine du Palmier, also known as the Fontaine de la Victoire (1808), located in the middle of the Place du Châtelet, in Paris.
The Parisian Sphinx is an oil-on-canvas painting by Belgian painter Alfred Stevens. Painted between 1875 and 1877, it depicts a dreamy young woman (or aristocratic demi-monde ) gently supporting her head with her hand.
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, 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.
The Great Sphinx remains one of the world’s biggest mysteries, but a new study suggests that wind could have had a bigger hand in shaping it than originally thought. Scientists offer evidence to ...
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.
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View from the Window at Le Gras [2] (French: Point de vue du Gras) is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce sometime between 1826 and 1827 [ a ] in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes , France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras [ fr ] , as seen from a high window.