Oedipus and the Sphinx

This article is about a painting by Gustave Moreau. For the painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, see Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres).
Oedipus and the Sphinx
ArtistGustave Moreau
Year1864
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions204 cm × 105 cm (80 in × 41 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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.

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