Oedipe chez le Sphinx

1842

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.3 x 20.1 cm (9 3/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.6 x 27.5 cm (14 x 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.2.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 967, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carl Sachs (Lugt. Suppl. 634a); R.E. Lewis, California; purchased by NGA 1993.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Inscriptions

lower left in stone: h.D. / 440; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Oedipe chez le Sphinx; by later hands, across bottom verso in graphite: 25036 Ny. 715 Sf.

Wikidata ID

Q75121355

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