| Artist |
Laurent Delvaux
RKD
VIAF
Wikidata
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|---|---|
| Title | The Sphinx |
| Date | circa 1728 - 1732 |
| Period | 18th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | monogram: D |
| Collection | sculpture AAT |
| Object type | terracottas (sculptural works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 2025-D |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 2025 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2025-D |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11981/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11982/manifest.json https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11983/manifest.json https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11984/manifest.json https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11985/manifest.json https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11986/manifest.json https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11987/manifest.json https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11988/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT |
|---|---|
| Keywords Iconclass |
25F(+536)
animals (+ lying animal)
Iconclass
25F23(LIONESS) beasts of prey, predatory animals (LIONESS) Iconclass 31A45231 sphinx (lion/woman); 'Sfinge' (Ripa) Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA236 lying figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 61F(SPHINX) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (SPHINX) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
exotism
Orientalism AAT |
| Laurent Delvaux : 1696-1778 / Georges Willame. - Bruxelles : G. Van Oest & Cie, 1914 (p. 59, nr. 68) |
| 'De la parenté d'inspiration des artistes flamands du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle. Laurent Delvaux et ses élèves', in : Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts, 2e série, dl. II, fasc. 1, 1928 / Marguerite Devigne. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 8) |
| Laurent Delvaux : Gand, 1696 - Nivelles, 1778 / Alain Jacobs, Denis Coekelberghs, Pierre Loze. - Paris : Arthena, 1999 (p. 206, p. 249, nr. S 35) |
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