Cleveland Museum of Art
Oedipus at Colonus
Fulchran Jean HarrietLinkedCulture matchlcp-bedf6458ec2b
- Date
- 1798
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 162295
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The ancient mythical Greek king Oedipus fulfilled his fate by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. He subsequently blinded himself and was exiled. Here, Oedipus reprimands himself, while protecting his daughter Antigone. Oedipus became popular in France just after the French Revolution, since the subject addressed the return of exiles. The ancient Greek writer Sophocles provided the best-known version of the tragedy, but an interpretation that played in Paris in 1797 inspired Harriet’s work. Fulchran Jean Harriet died young at age 29, and less than 10 of his works survive today.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- 2002-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | Probably 1966 - 2002: Foucart collection, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | Until 1966: (Art market, Paris)
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