Gustave Moreau

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

Iconclass

94T33 Oedipus and the sphinx; he solves the riddle

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 21.134.1

Other works by Gustave Moreau

Hesind and the Muse
1891

Orpheus
1863

Salome (dancing before Herod)
1876

Landscape
1858

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra
c. 1876