Jupiter and the Sphinx
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Jupiter and the Sphinx
- Artist: Auguste Préault (French, Paris 1809–1879 Paris)
- Date: 1868
- Culture: French, Paris
- Medium: Tinted plaster
- Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 46 × 44 1/8 × 23 3/4 in. (116.8 × 112.1 × 60.3 cm)
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, in honor of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, 1981
- Object Number: 1981.319.2
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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