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Did you know... that the Moreau painting Oedipus and the Sphinx dramatizes the moment Oedipus must correctly answer this riddle or die: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night"?

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Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that depicts the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road to Delphi. The painting was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864, where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Painting: Gustave Moreau

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