Category:Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres - RF 218

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Instance of	painting; envoi de Rome;
Main subject	Riddle of the Sphinx;
Depicts	Oedipus, sphinx, man, nudity, cave, eye contact, cadaver, spear and bone
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	mythological painting; nude;
Location	Louvre storage (depot), Louvre Conservation Center, Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, Metropolitan France, France
Creator	Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres;
Owned by	French State;
Collection	Department of Paintings of the Louvre;
Inventory number	RF 218 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre);
Inception	1808;
Width	144 ±1 cm;
Height	189 ±1 cm;
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	Q5818528; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 146136308; Joconde work ID: 000PE001540; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010059986
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Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres - RF 218

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Oedipus and the Sphinx

Artist



Description	French painter, politician, violinist, drawer, printmaker and graphic artist
Date of birth/death	29 August 1780	14 January 1867
Location of birth/death	Montauban	Paris
Work location	Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas; Meung-sur-Loire; Paris; Toulouse; Versailles; Ancona; Florence; Naples; Orvieto; Ravenna; Rome; Siena; Urbino
Authority file	: Q23380 VIAF: 76327826 ISNI: 0000000121400757 ULAN: 500028037 LCCN: n81047807 NLA: 35222301 MusicBrainz: 220c7a73-bc8e-4a12-b6f3-a0e3aa2b1b05 WGA: i/ingres Open Library: OL126930A DBNL: ingr002 GND: 11855560X SELIBR: 208917 SUDOC: 02727330X BNF: 12015522j NDL: 00444253 BIBSYS: 90237078 NKC: jn19990003898 Léonore: [ LH//1335/27] BNE: XX976852 CiNii: DA02012689 NLP: a0000001182729 KulturNav: 1f7fcc2d-3e4f-42ad-8a8c-3ac1bf25642d RKD: 41067 J9U: 987007312907205171 Koninklijke: 068656092 NLK: KAC201423593 WorldCat

Title

French:

Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Object type

painting / envoi de Rome

Genre

mythological painting

Description

Riddle of the Sphinx

Depicted people

sphinx

Date

1808, 1827 (partie centrale du tableau peinte en 1808 agrandie en 1827;agrandissement du support)

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 189 cm (74.4 in)

; width: 144 cm (56.6 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Denon, 1 e étage, Daru, Salle 75

Accession number

RF 218

Place of creation

Italy

Object history

1878: bequeathed by comtesse Duchâtel

Exhibition history

La Galerie du temps (2014), Louvre-Lens, 4 December 2013–3 December 2014

, cat. no. 206

References

Lucie Streiff-Rivail (coordination et suivi éditorial), Isabelle Pelletier (coordination et suivi éditorial (assistante)), Charles-Hilaire Valentin (iconographie), Nicolas Neumann (directeur éditorial), Lydia Labadi (coordination et suivi éditorial), Astrid Bargeton (coordination et suivi éditorial (assistante)), Loïc Levêque (conception graphique et réalisation), Sarah Zhiri (contribution éditoriale), Michel Brousset (fabrication), Béatrice Bourgerie (fabrication), Mélanie Le Gros (fabrication), Jean-Luc Martinez (auteur), Vincent Pomarède (auteur) et al. (préf. Daniel Percheron), Louvre-Lens, le guide 2014, Lens & Paris, Musée du Louvre-Lens & Somogy éditions d'art, novembre 2013, 16,2 cm × 23 cm, 296 p., p. (ISBN 978-2-36838-002-4 et ISBN 978-2-7572-0605-8)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/archive/10-511333-2C6NU0QLY1KN.html

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Media in category "Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres - RF 218"

The following 20 files are in this category, out of 20 total.

Dominique Sels à Lens, au musée du Louvre, en août 2014 - photo Casimir Lepel.jpg 1,594 × 2,095; 984 KB
Expo 1855 Disdéri galerie française Ingres f18.jpg 5,609 × 4,257; 14.51 MB
Ferdinand Gaillard, after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Oedipus (Oedipe), 1876, NGA 206771.jpg 2,529 × 3,526; 6.05 MB
Ingres-correspondances 0591-pl-18.png 898 × 1,092; 1.24 MB
IngresOdipusAndSphinx (cropped).jpg 1,084 × 1,713; 1.26 MB
IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg 1,518 × 2,000; 2.23 MB
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Oedipus and the Sphynx - WGA11843.jpg 1,018 × 1,342; 121 KB
Jean-auguste-dominique ingres, edipo scioglie l'enigma della sfinge, 1808, 01,1.jpg 1,944 × 2,328; 2.69 MB
Jean-auguste-dominique ingres, edipo scioglie l'enigma della sfinge, 1808, 01.JPG 2,538 × 3,054; 5.08 MB
Jean-auguste-dominique ingres, edipo scioglie l'enigma della sfinge, 1808, 02.jpg 2,932 × 2,304; 4.11 MB
Jean-auguste-dominique ingres, edipo scioglie l'enigma della sfinge, 1808, 03,2.jpg 2,728 × 2,304; 4.14 MB
Jean-auguste-dominique ingres, edipo scioglie l'enigma della sfinge, 1808, 03.JPG 2,532 × 3,648; 2.97 MB
Lapauze - Ingres, 1911 (page 109 crop).jpg 1,668 × 2,297; 365 KB
Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 206 - RF 218 (A).JPG 3,435 × 3,979; 1.59 MB
Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 206 - RF 218 (B).JPG 3,884 × 3,035; 825 KB
Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 206 - RF 218 (C).JPG 3,672 × 4,896; 2.58 MB
Oedipus and Sphinx (Ingres).jpg 3,036 × 4,000; 6.77 MB
Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres, RF 218 (14 2012-06-29).jpg 3,456 × 4,608; 5.44 MB
Oedipus and the Sphinx, after Ingres MET DP832867.jpg 1,267 × 1,759; 1.69 MB
Stamp of Ajman - 1970 - Colnect 649862 - Oedipus - The sphinx 1808.jpeg 732 × 1,024; 185 KB