Oedipus leans toward the shadowed Sphinx and points as if answering its riddle. Ingres sets the hero’s sharply lit body against the cave, with bones and a fallen foot below turning the intellectual contest into an immediate danger. Sources: https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.9; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique%20Ingres%20-%20Oedipus%20and%20the%20Sphinx%20-%20Walters%20379.jpg (Public domain image).

Exhibition Venue

Walters Art Museum

Baltimore, United States