Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). For bio see Wikipedia: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres↗.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808.
Sphinx is a half-woman half-lion creature who strangles passersby that cannot answer her riddle. Oedipus answered her riddle, and Sphix jumped off a a high-rock and killed herself. Oedipus is also famously known for having (unknowingly) killed his father, for which we have the term Oedipus Complex.
See: Oedipus↗.
Jupiter and Thetis, 1811.
«She sank to the ground beside him, put her left arm round his knees, raised her right hand to touch his chin, and so made her petition to the Royal Son of Cronos» — Iliad↗.
Note: Jupiter is the Roman God analogous to Zeus in Greek mythology. Thetis↗ is a silver-footed sea nymph, mother of the Geek hero Archilles in Trojan War.
Odalisque↗ with a Slave, 1840.
above: The spring, 1856.
Turkish Bath, 1862.
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