Oedipe chez le Sphinx, 1842

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series Title

Histoire ancienne

Medium

lithograph on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 967, State i/iii

Accession Number

1993.2.1

Artists / Makers

Honoré Daumier (artist) French, 1808 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

R. E. lewis
Sachs, Carl

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.