Ingres, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Oil on Canvas, Signed and Dated, 1808, reworked 1827, Louvre, Paris

Ingres, Oedipus and The Sphinx, Oil on canvas, Signed and dated, 1808, reworked in 1827, Louvre, ParisRomanticism encouraged a poetic sensibility in landscapes, Ingres becomes aware of what the public wantsHe reworks the painting, adding section either side, chasm and sky, dead foot, making it more unnerving, Ingres understood that the Salon now had a mood of Romanticism - it was inline with the Romanticism of the 1820sThe Mythological subject was not popular, so Ingres makes it more ModernThe original composition framed Oedipus Titian, Diana and Acteon, Oil on Canvas, 1556-9, NG, London