Jupiter and the Sphinx

Auguste Préault

1868 · Tinted plaster · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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.

Artist

Auguste Préault

Date

1868

Medium

Tinted plaster

Culture

French, Paris

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, in honor of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, 1981