The Art of Literature

Oedipus and Antigone

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The Plague of Thebes, oil on canvas,Charles François Jalabeat (French, 1819-1901)Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseilles

“Oedipus in the Temple” by ?

Oedipus and the Sphinx,Gustave Moreau, 1864

Teiresias Accuses Oedipus, by James Mah

Antoine-Denis Chaudet (French, 1763–1810)Description English: The child Œdipus brought back to life by the shepherd Phorbas, who took him off the tree. A plaster model was exhibited at the Salon of 1801. Completed by Pierre Cartellier (1757–1831) and Louis-Marie Dupaty (1771–1825) after Chaudet's death.

Oedipus By Matthew Holloway

“Oedipus Rex” by Max Ernst

“David with the head of Goliath” by Caravaggio

Max Ernst, The King playing with the Queen

Edouard Toudouze, “Farewell of Oedipus to the Corpses of His Wife and Sons” (1871)

Charles François Jalabeat, Antigone Leads Oedipus Out of Thebes (1849)

Let every man in mankind’s frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

–Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς), Oedipus the King (Oἰδίπoυς τύραννoς), l. 1529 (429 BCE)

Gustave Doré French, 1832 – 1883, “The Enigma”

“Oedipus at Colonus,” Fulchran-Jean Harriet (1798)

Oedipus (with Ismene and Antigone) condemns Polynices, 1883 , Andre-Marcel Baschet

Oedipus Cursing his Son, PolyneicesBy Henry Fuseli, 1741-1825