Oedipus and the Sphinx

This article is about a painting by Gustave Moreau. For the painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, see Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres).
Oedipus and the Sphinx
ArtistGustave Moreau Edit this on Wikidata
Year1864
Mediumoil paint, canvas
Dimensions206 cm (81 in) × 105 cm (41 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art
IdentifiersThe Met object ID: 437153
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Original watercolour of the idea for Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1861.
Study for the head of Oedipus
Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ingres, 1808. Oil on Canvas. Louvre, Paris.

Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road outside Thebes, as described in Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex.