File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Oedipus and the Sphinx - Walters 379FXD.jpg
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[edit]Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Oedipus and the Sphinx
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q23380 |
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Title |
Oedipus and the Sphinx |
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Description |
English: The Sphinx, a mythical creature-part lion, part woman-grimaces in horror as Oedipus solves her riddle: "What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed, two-footed, and three-footed?" Oedipus replies, "Man, for as a babe he is four-footed, as an adult he is two-footed, and as an old man he gets a third support, a cane," and the Sphinx hurls herself onto the rocks below, which are strewn with the bones of her victims.
Ingres, who frequently repeated the subjects of his paintings, first depicted this story at the beginning of his career and returned to it several times, making variations in the composition, such as reversing the direction in which the figures faced. |
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Depicted people |
sphinx ![]() |
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Date |
1864 date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 105.5 cm (41.5 in); width: 87 cm (34.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,105.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,87U174728 ; Framed height: 150.8 cm (59.3 in); width: 132.4 cm (52.1 in); depth: 18.7 cm (7.3 in)dimensions QS:P2048,150.81U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,132.4U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,18.73U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
37.9 |
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Place of creation | France | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
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Exhibition history | Vive la France! French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1999-2000. Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton. 2000-2002. From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1951. Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton. 1953-1954. Ingres in American Collections. Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, New York. 1961. Masterpieces of Art ? Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). Seattle World's Fair, Seattle. 1962. Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. 1964. Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle, A Survey of the Human Form Through the Ages. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco. 1964-1965. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1968. In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.- A.- D. Ingres. Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. 1983-1984. Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004. Ingres, 1780-1867. Musée du Louvre, Paris. 2006. Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix. 2007-2008. 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin. 2010-2011. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1908 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions | [Signature] Lower center: J. Ingres fbat/etatis/; [Date] Lower center: LXXXIII/1864; [Number] On reverse: 160; [Number] On reverse: 6385 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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