Oedipus and the Sphinx
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-fo...
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drawing
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provenance
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, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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oil on canvas
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