title: <div class="fn"> <span >French: <span dir="ltr" lang="fr"><i>Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span> <span style="font-weight:bold"><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>Oedipus and the Sphinx</i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,fr:"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lfr,"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Les,"Edipo y la esfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lja,"スフィンクスの謎を解くオイディプス"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lit,"Edipo e la Sfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lcs,"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsv,"Oidipus och sfinxen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lel,"Ο Οιδίποδας λύνει το αίνιγμα της Σφίγγας"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lru,"Эдип и Сфинкс"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lde,"Ödipus und die Sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lavk,"Oidipous va welima ke Sfinkse pebur (trutca ke Ingres)"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lpt,"Édipo e a Esfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"Oedipus and the Sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhy,"Էդիպոս և Սփինքս"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbr,"Oidipous hag ar Sfins"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres"><span title="French painter (1780-1867)">Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres</span></a> </bdi>

date: 1808 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>

title: <div class="fn"> <i>Oedipus and the Sphinx</i> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres"><span title="French painter (1780-1867)">Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres</span></a> </bdi>

date: 1864<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm height=105.5 width=87 ; Framed size cm height=150.81 width=132.4 depth=18.73

current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1908

credit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Walters_Art_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:en:Walters Art Museum"><span title="art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States">Walters Art Museum</span></a>: <a href="https://thewalters.org/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Nuvola filesystems folder home.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/20px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/30px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/40px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thewalters.org/">Home page</a> <a href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/7916" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/20px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/30px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/40px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/7916">Info about artwork</a>

description: 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. <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">ingres</u>, 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.

title: Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 206 - RF 218 (A)

artist: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:J%C3%84NNICK_J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my" class="mw-redirect" title="User:JÄNNICK Jérémy">JÄNNICK Jérémy</a>

date: 4 December 2013

source: own

credit: <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>

title: Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 206 - RF 218 (B)

artist: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:J%C3%84NNICK_J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my" class="mw-redirect" title="User:JÄNNICK Jérémy">JÄNNICK Jérémy</a>

date: 4 December 2013

source: own

credit: <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>

title: Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 206 - RF 218 (C)

artist: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:J%C3%84NNICK_J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my" class="mw-redirect" title="User:JÄNNICK Jérémy">JÄNNICK Jérémy</a>

date: 4 December 2013

source: own

credit: <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>

title: <div class="fn"> <span >French: <span dir="ltr" lang="fr"><i>Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span> <span style="font-weight:bold"><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>Oedipus and the Sphinx</i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,fr:"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lfr,"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Les,"Edipo y la esfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lja,"スフィンクスの謎を解くオイディプス"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lit,"Edipo e la Sfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lcs,"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsv,"Oidipus och sfinxen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lel,"Ο Οιδίποδας λύνει το αίνιγμα της Σφίγγας"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lru,"Эдип и Сфинкс"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lde,"Ödipus und die Sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lavk,"Oidipous va welima ke Sfinkse pebur (trutca ke Ingres)"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lpt,"Édipo e a Esfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"Oedipus and the Sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhy,"Էդիպոս և Սփինքս"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbr,"Oidipous hag ar Sfins"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres"><span title="French painter (1780-1867)">Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres</span></a> </bdi>

date: 1808 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>

title: <div class="fn"> <span >French: <span dir="ltr" lang="fr"><i>Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span> <span style="font-weight:bold"><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>Oedipus and the Sphinx</i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,fr:"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lfr,"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Les,"Edipo y la esfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lja,"スフィンクスの謎を解くオイディプス"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lit,"Edipo e la Sfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lcs,"Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsv,"Oidipus och sfinxen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lel,"Ο Οιδίποδας λύνει το αίνιγμα της Σφίγγας"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lru,"Эдип и Сфинкс"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lde,"Ödipus und die Sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lavk,"Oidipous va welima ke Sfinkse pebur (trutca ke Ingres)"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lpt,"Édipo e a Esfinge"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"Oedipus and the Sphinx"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhy,"Էդիպոս և Սփինքս"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbr,"Oidipous hag ar Sfins"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres"><span title="French painter (1780-1867)">Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres</span></a> </bdi>

date: 1808 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5818528#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>

source: Extracted from|1=Lapauze - Ingres, 1911.djvu

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title: <div class="fn"> <i>Oedipus and the Sphinx</i> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres"><span title="French painter (1780-1867)">Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres</span></a> </bdi>

date: 1864<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm height=105.5 width=87 ; Framed size cm height=150.81 width=132.4 depth=18.73

current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1908

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description: 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. <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">ingres</u>, 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.