Gustave Moreau
Oedipus and the Sphinx
1864206.4 x 104.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower left: .Gustave Moreau .64.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of William H. Herriman, 1920
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, sa vie, son Oeuvre, Paris, 1976, nr. 64
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 67
Literature
Michael Fried, Manet's Modernism, or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, Chicago, 1996, plate 14
Provenance
the artist, Paris, sold on 1 May 1864 to Napoleon
Prince Napoléon-Joseph-Charles-Paul Bonaparte, Paris, 1864–68, sold on 3 February 1868, to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, in partnership with Brame, Paris, 1868, sold on 6 March to Herriman
William H. Herriman, Rome, 1868–died 1921
Other works by Gustave Moreau
Hesind and the Muse
1891
1891
Orpheus
1863
1863
Landscape
1858
1858
Salome (dancing before Herod)
1876
1876
Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra
c. 1876
c. 1876