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| Keywords: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Oedipus and the Sphinx - Walters 379.jpg 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 1808 Oil on canvas cm 105 5 87 ; Framed cm 150 81 132 4 18 73 accession number 37 9 7916 M Emile Pereire 1864 by commission painted for Pereire Pereire Sale Paris March 6-9 1872 no 26 Secrétan Sale Paris July 1-7 1889 no 37 P A Chéramy Sale Paris May 5-7 1908 no 20 208 Henry Walters city Baltimore Dikran Kelekian as agent Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 Signature Lower center J Ingres fbat/etatis/; Date Lower center LXXXIII/1864; Number On reverse 160; Number On reverse 6385 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 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Œdipe et le Sphinx - Ingres French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1860s paintings from France 1864 paintings Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
