Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
The story
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. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road outside Thebes, as described in Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex.
- Artist
- Gustave Moreau
- Date
- 1864
- Collection
- The Met, New York, United States
- Movement
- academic art
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 206 × 105 cm
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