Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene

ca. 1760–61

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, bown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (19 × 22.3 cm)
Collection no.: 2014.461
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Anton Raphael Mengs. Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene. Anton Raphael Mengs; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene — Anton Raphael Mengs. ca. 1760–61.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, bown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (19 × 22.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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