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Images of Oedipus Art: Medieval Period to Present Compiled by Sara Harrington in consultation with Professor Lowell Edmunds Citations for images listed in chronological order in the following format: Artist. Title. Date. Media. Stylistic Period. Collection. [Subject.] Image List[Oedipus Encountering Sphinx.] In Histoire Universelle, Brussels. Illuminated manuscript. MS Number 10175. Folio 92r. Library, Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Anthoine de Langle (or Lancre). [Oedipus Encountering Sphinx.] In Destruction de la Noble Cité de Thebes. 1474. Illuminated Manuscript. MS number G.23. Folio 8r. Morgan Library, New York. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] French Miniature. [Phorbas and Oedipus.] 15th century. Oedipus and the Sphinx. Illustration from Le Roman de Thèbes by Benoit de Sainte-More. Medieval. Manuscript. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris? [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Giovanni Angelo Canini. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1653. Engraving. Title page of Oedipus Aegyptiacus by Athanasius Kircher. Rome, 1653. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Salvator Rosa. The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus. 1663. Etching. 2 states. Charles Le Brun. The Finding of the Body of Oedipus (?). 1690. Painting. Art Gallery and Museum, Bolton. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Franz-Xaver Karl Palko. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1749?. Pen and Brown ink. (2001: Charles Ratton & Guy Ladrière). [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Franz-Xaver Karl Palko. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1749. Hermitage, St. Petersburg. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Jean-Honoré Fragonard. [Phorbas and Oedipus.] 2nd half of the 18th century. Simon Challe. [The Childhood of Oedipus.] (Salon of) 1761. Sculpture. [Oedipus.] Simon Challe. Oedipus and Phorbas. Terracotta sculpture. Lost. Plaster copy held in Cronstedt Collection, Fullero. Henry Fuseli. Oedipus Answers the Riddle of the Sphinx. 1768. Drawing. Kunsthaus, Zurich. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Replica. 1770-1772. British Museum, London. Félix Lecomte. [The Childhood of Oedipus.] 1771. Sculpture. Louvre, Paris.
Henri Fuseli. Oedipus Cursing his Son Polyneices. 1776-1778. Oil. National Gallery, Washington.
Oedipus Vanquishing the Sphinx. Frontispiece of Le Monde Primitif by Antoine Court de Gébelin. 1777. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Nicholas-Guy Brenet. The Adoption of Oedipus by the Queen of Corinth. (Salon of) 1781. Oil. Neoclassicism. Henry Fuseli. Oedipus Receives, in the Presence of his Daughters, the Foreknowledge of his Death. 1784. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Bénigne Gagnereaux. Blind Oedipus Commending His Family to the Gods. 1784. Neoclassicism. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Peyron. [Oedipus and Polyneices.] (Salon of) 1785. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Jean Antoine Theodore Giroust. Oedipus at Colonus. 1788. Oil on canvas. Neoclassicism. Dallas Museum of Art. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Valenciennes. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1791. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Nicolas-René Jollain. Blind Oedipus Guided by Antigone. (Salon of) 1791. Lost. Rococo/NeoClassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Henry Fuseli. Oedipus Appeals to the Gods to Free Thebes from the Plagues. 1792. Engraved by Holloway. Illustration to Dryden and Lee's 1679 Oedipus. Lethiers and Bidault. [Discovery of the Infant Oedipus.] (Salon of) 1793. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Joseph Leroy (?). Oedipus and Antigone. 1795. Musée Salles, Bagnères-de-Bigorre. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Lambert. Antigone Begging for the Pardon of her Brother. (Salon of) 1795. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Lambert. [Oedipus and Polyneices.] (Salon of) 1796. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Joseph Leroy. Oedipus and Antigone. (Salon of) 1796. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Briant. [Discovery of the Infant Oedipus.] (Salon of) 1796. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Fulchram-Jean Harriet. Oedipus at Colonus. 1796. Drawing. Neoclassicism. Joseph Leroy. Oedipus and Antigone. (Salon of) 1798. Drawing. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Fulchram-Jean Harriet. Oedipus at Colonus. 1798-1799. Oil on canvas. Neoclassicism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland? Private collection? [Oedipus at Colonus.] Previously held in the Foucart Collection, Paris OR a copy Charles Thévenin. Oedipus and Antigone. 1798. Assemblé Nationale, Paris. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Bouillon. Oedipus and Antigone. (Salon of) 1799. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Antoine-Denis Chaudet. Oedipus as a Child Restored to Life by the Shepherd Phorbas. Begun 1799, (Salon of) 1801, lost, marble completed 1815-1818 by Pierre Cartellier and Louis-Marie Dupaty. Sculpture. Neoclassicism. Louvre, Paris. Hue. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1800. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Henry Singleton. [Oedipus. Scenes from John Dryden's Oedipus.] c.1800? Anonymous (French painter)? Oedipus Cursing Polyneices. After 1800. Neoclassicism. Collection Galerie Neuport, Zurich. [Oedipus at Colonus.] John Flaxman. The Blind Tiresias. Early 1800s. Drawing. From an unpublished Sophocles cycle. York City Art Gallery. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. Le Serment des Sept Chefs devant Thebes. 1800. Neoclassicism. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch. Oedipus and His Daughters. 1802-1803. Lost. [Oil sketch for the painting in a private collection.] [Oedipus at Colonus.] Jacques-Augustin Pajou, fils. Oedipus Cursing Polyneices. 1804. Neoclassicism. Musée de Beaux-Arts, Poitiers. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Pierre-Edme-Louis Pellier. Oedipus Cursing his Son. 1804. Musée de Beaux-Arts, Angers. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Vafflard. The Death of Oedipus. (Salon of) 1804. [Oedipus at Colonus.] After Jean-François Peyron. Antigone Soliciting the Pardon of Polyneices. 1806. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] In C.P. Landon, Annals du Musée, Paris, 1801-1809, XIII Deloras. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1808. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] François-Xavier Fabre. Oedipus at Colonus. 1808. Neoclassicism. Musée Fabre. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres. Oedipus and the Sphinx. Oil. 1808. Louvre, Paris. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Albers. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1814. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Desmarais. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1814. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Juhel. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1814. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Lemire. [Oedipus and Antigone.] (Salon of) 1814. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Georges Rouget. Oedipus and Antigone. (Salon of) 1814. Neoclassicism. Musée de Beaux-Arts, Rouen. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Johan Peter Krafft. Oedipus and Antigone at Colonus. Circa 1814. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis. [Oedipus at Colonus.] François Dominique Aimé Milhomme. Oedipus at Colonus. c.1823. Sculpture. Musée, Valenciennes. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Aleksander Kokular. Oedipus and Antigone. 1825. [Polish academic painter.] National Museum, Warsaw. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Antoni Brodowski. Oedipus and Antigone. 1828. [Polish academic painter.] National Museum, Warsaw. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1826-1827. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Joseph-Charles Marin. Oedipus and Antigone. c.1834. Terracotta sculpture. Musée de Beaux-Arts, Besançon. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Antoine-Jean Gros. Oedipus and Antigone. c.1835. Painting. Neoclassicism. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Charles Thevenin. Oedipus and Antigone. c.1838. Painting. Art Gallery, Aberdeen. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Honoré Daumier. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1842. Lithograph from the Ancient History series. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Charles Jalabert. Oedipus and Antigone. 1843. Musée de Beaux Arts, Marseille. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Eugène-Jean Damery. Oedipus Exiled from Thebes. 1843. Prix de Rome competition subject. Ecole-de-Beaux-Arts, Paris. Honoré Daumier. Oedipus and the Shepherd. 1846-1847. Oil. Thannhauser Collection, New York. Jean-François Millet. Oedipus Taken Down from the Tree. 1847. Oil. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. School of Ingres. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 2nd half of the 19th century? Museum of Angers, Angers, France. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Honoré Daumier. The New Oedipus Before the New Sphinx. 1851. Comic lithography from the Physionomies Tragiques. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski. Oedipus and Antigone. 1854. National Museum, Krakow. [Oedipus at Colonus.] E. Wedder. The Questioner of the Sphinx. 1863. Oil. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1864. Oil. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Gustave Moreau. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1864. Oil. Symbolism. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Bonnat. Antigone Leading the Blind Oedipus. 1865. [Oedipus at Colonus.] (Paul) Joseph Blanc. The Murder of Laius by Oedipus. 1867. Oil. Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux Arts, Paris. Odilon Redon. Mystic Knight. (or) Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1869-1890. Drawing with pastel. Symbolism. Musée de Beaux- Arts, Bordeaux.
Jean-Baptise Hugues. Oedipus at Colonus. 1882-1885. Marble sculpture group. Museé d'Orsay, Paris. [Oedipus at
Colonus.] Johann Andreas Thelott. Deckel-Portal Goblet (including a scene of Oedipus). 1869. Stadt Kstsamml, Augsburg. Georges Rochegrosse. Oedipus. Painting. 3rd quarter of the 19th century? Sammlung Carl Laszlo, Basel. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Question. (or) The Sphinx. 1875. Drawing for an unexecuted painting. Pre-Raphaelite. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Christian Behrens. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1876. Sculpture. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.]
Gustave Moreau. The Sphinx's Riddle Solved. 1878. Painting. Symbolism. Vicomte de Noailles Collection, Paris. [Oedipus and
the Sphinx.] Alfred Laurens Brennan. The Lament of Oedipus, Blind : "Oh, Miserable am I". 1881. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Gustave Moreau. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1883. Watercolor. Symbolism. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Walter Crane. The Riddle of the Sphinx. 1887. Painting, sketch. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Gustave Moreau. Equality before Death or Oedipus the Wayfarer. 1888. Oil. Symbolism. Musée Central, Metz. E. Christophe. The Supreme Kiss. 1891 (Salon of 1892.). Sculpture. Franz von Stuck. Oedipus Solves the Riddle of the Sphinx. 1891. Painting. Symbolism. Galerie Toelle, Barmen (in 1909) now lost. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Charles Ricketts. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1891. Drawing. Carlisle Museum, England. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Henri Léopold Lévy. Oedipus Exiling Himself from Thebes. Also known as Oedipus and Antigone 1892. Symbolism. Louvre, Paris or Musée d'Orsay, Paris. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Gustave Moreau. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1895. Email. Symbolism. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Franz von Stuck. The Kiss of the Sphinx. 1895. Oil. Symbolism. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Fernand Knopff. The Sphinx. (or) The Caresses. 1895-1896. Painting. Symbolism. Musées Royax de Beaux-Arts (Musée d'Art Moderne), Brussels. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Auguste Renoir. Oedipus. (and) Jocasta. 1895. Paintings, designs for unexecuted wall panels. Stuart Collection, Chicago.
François Sicard. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1903. Small-scale bronze sculpture. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. [Oedipus
and the Sphinx.] Max Ernst. Oedipus Rex. 1922. Oil on Canvas. Private collection. Dada/Surrealism. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Francis Picabia. Oedipus and the Sphinx. Dada. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Francis Picabia. The Sphinx. 1923. Gouache. Dada. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Salvador Dali. Oedipus Complex. 1930. Dada. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Salvador Dali. Le Reve. 1931. Dada. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Max Ernst. Inside Sight. 1931. Collage. Illustration for Ernst's and Paul Eluard's A l'inérior de la vue. Surrealism. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Glyn Philpot. Oedipus Replying to the Sphinx. 1931. Bronze sculpture. Tate Gallery, London. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] John Duncan. Oedipus. 1934. Painting. Sammlung Carl Laszlo, Basel. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Max Ernst. "Mercredi" In Une Semaine de Bonté. 1934. Collage book. Surrealism. Private collection. Max Ernst. Oedipus I and Oedipus II. 1934. Plaster sculptures, later cast in bronze in edtitions of 10 between 1960-1963. Surrealism. Artist's estate. Max Ernst. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1935. Collage of engravings. Surrealism. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Mark Rothko. Oedipus. Painting. Late 1930s. Andre Masson. Oedipus. 1939. Painting. Surrealism. Galerie Leiris, Paris. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Adolph Gottlieb. Oedipus. 1941. Pictograph painting. Gottlieb Foundation, New York. Adolph Gottlieb. Eyes of Oedipus. 1941. Pictograph painting. Private collection Adolph Gottlieb. Oedipus Pictograph Totem. 1942. Pictograph painting. Adolph Gottlieb. Hands of Oedipus. (and) Pictograph #4. 1943. Pictograph painting. Gottlieb Foundation, New York Adolph Gottlieb. Eyes of Oedipus. 1945. Pictograph painting. 1945. Leonard Baskin. Oedipus Blind. c.1946. Clay sculpture. Beckerman Collection, New York. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Werner Gilles. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1950. Watercolor. Galerie des 20 Jahuhunderts, Berlin (as of 1962). [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Gerhard Marcks. Oedipus and Antigone. 1960. Bronze sculpture. Ellis School, Pittsburgh, and private collection. [Oedipus at Colonus.] William Turnbull. Oedipus II. 1962. Bronze and stone sculpture. Marborough Fine Art,London (as of 1964). Giorgio de Chirico. Oedipus and Antigone. 1950-1968. Painting. Private collection. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Giorgio de Chirico. The Sphinx Questioning Oedipus. 1966. Drawing. Private Collection. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Giacomo Manzu. Etchings for an edition of Oedipus Rex. 1967. 7 etchings, 5 unpublished variants. Leonard Baskin. Oedipus at Colonus. 1968. Bronze sculpture. Private collection. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Leonard Baskin. Oedipus at Colonus. 1969. Etching. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Leonard Baskin. Oedipus in Exile. 1971. Bronze sculpture. Private collection. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Leonard Baskin. Patriarch/Oedipus at Colonus. 1971. Lithograph. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Pablo Picasso. Oedipus and the Sphinx. 1972. Drawing. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Sidney Nolan. Notes for Oedipus. Series of 24 paintings. 1974. Marlborough Fine Art, London. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Vettor Pisani. Oedipus and the Sphinx: Cemetery of the Artists and Poets, Rome. (After Fernand Khnopff.) 1980. Collage. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Vettor Pisani. The Tomb of Oedipus. 1982. Sculpture-installation. Guggenheim Museum, New York. [Oedipus at Colonus.] Francis Bacon. Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres. 1983. Painting. Private collection [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Richard Hejza. Impressions (based on the myth of Oedipus). 1987. Sculpture. [Oedipus.] Jean-Marce Moret. Œdipe, la Sphinx et les Thébains. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Undated: Claude Ferdinand Gaillard. Oedipus Consulting the Sphinx (after Ingres). n.d. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Haus Georg Hunkeler. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Johann Heinrich Meyer. [Oedipus and the Sphinx.] Watercolor. Kunstgesellschaft, Zurich. BibliographyAbry, Emile. Histoire Illustrée de la Littérature Française. Paris: H. Didier, 1924. "Album : Marborough Gallery." Arts Magazine 58 (June 1984): 50-51. AMICA Library database. Bartels, Dennis and Alice L. Bartels. "Images of Oedipus." Dialectical Anthropology 26 (2001): 126-135. Calley, Karhryn. "The Family Paradigm in French Painting, 1789-1814." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1998. Chadwick, Whitney. "Eros or Thanatos-The Surrealist Cult of Love Reexamined." Artforum (November 1975): 46-56. Cherqui, Guy. "Une Représentation du Mythe: Oedipe Résoud l'Enigme du Sphinx de J.B. Ingres." Studi di Letteratura Francese 15 (1989) : 207-219. "Franz-Xaver Karl Palko (1724-1767). Oedipus and the Sphinx." The Burlington Magazine 143, no. 1176 (March 2001): xxiv.
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