Oedipus and Antigone By Charles De Thevenin

Sepia ink and wash with white gouache heightening. Charles de Thevenin was the director of the French Academy in Rome in the late 18th century. This large drawing is a study for a painting exhibited at the Salon of 1792.

Oedipus was a blind wandering exile in his old age, cared for by Antigone (his daughter and sister). This is his state at the beginning of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, a fitting topic for the extreme Noclassicism of French art at the end of the 18th century.

Provenance: Private Collection, Paris.

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