Painting of the Week: Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx

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This week, a great example of neoclassicism from the French master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvc83MkEVo

Louvre
Denon wing, 1st floor: Room 702

"Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx"

by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres