Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1808–27
Oedipus and the Sphinx
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Oedipus, a nude young man in a laurel wreath, stands on a rock before a cave and ponders the Sphinx's riddle, while the Sphinx looms in shadow at the left, bones lie at his feet and a man flees toward the sunlit city at the right. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Up to 12 × 15.8 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
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Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Oedipus and the Sphinx
Ingres painted the figure of Oedipus in Rome in 1808 as a student work. Around 1825 he enlarged the canvas by 20 cm at the left and 31 cm at the top and right, adding the Sphinx, the human remains and the fleeing man, and showed the finished picture at the Salon of 1827. It is signed and dated 1808; the Louvre acquired it in 1878.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.
All Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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