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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Oedipus and the Sphinx

Artist



Description	French painter, politician, violinist, drawer, printmaker and graphic artist
Date of birth/death	29 August 1780	14 January 1867
Location of birth/death	Montauban	Paris
Work location	Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas; Meung-sur-Loire; Paris; Toulouse; Versailles; Ancona; Florence; Naples; Orvieto; Ravenna; Rome; Siena; Urbino
Authority file	: Q23380 VIAF: 76327826 ISNI: 0000000121400757 ULAN: 500028037 LCCN: n81047807 NLA: 35222301 WorldCat

Title

French:

Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Object type

painting / envoi de Rome

Genre

mythological painting

Description

Riddle of the Sphinx

Depicted people

sphinx

Date

1808

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 189 cm (74.4 in)

; width: 144 cm (56.6 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Department of Paintings of the Louvre

Louvre storage (depot)

Accession number

RF 218 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre)

Exhibition history

Salon of 1827, Salon Carré, 4 November 1827 / 3 November 1827 - April 1828 / 26 April 1828

References

Authority file

Source/Photographer

Unknown source

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	06:12, 3 March 2009	499 × 680 (331 KB)	Tetraktys	{{information\| \|Description = Oedipus et Sphinx, 1808 \|Source = [http://www.fak09.uni-muenchen.de/Kunstgeschichte/sds_malerei/frz_malerei/41-dt-franz-malerei/studieneinheiten/1815_1830_f/4b/gruppe_3/b.htm] \|Date = \|Author = [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ing
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