Jupiter and the Sphinx - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.762 W 073° 57.762
18T E 587529 N 4514782
This sculpture is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMNQ1Q
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 04/16/2015
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The Museum's website (
visit link) provides the information about this sculpture:
"Jupiter and the Sphinx
Artist: Auguste Préault (French, 1809–1879)
Date: 1868
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: Tinted plaster
Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): H. 46 7/8 x W. 44 1/8 x D. 23 3/4 in. (119.1 x 112.1 x 60.3 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, in honor of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, 1981
Accession Number: 1981.319.2...
This group is the sculptor's working model for one of two monumental stone sculptures completed in 1870 and still in the garden of the palace at Fontainbleau. Like Venus, the companion sculpture, Jupiter has no precedent in antique iconography and is apparently the original product of Préault's deeply Romantic imagination."
The sphinx is unusual...it seems to have a woman's breasts, a man's face and muscular arms and a set of ram horns.
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