• Camille-Félix Bellanger
• French, 1853 – 1923
• "Oedipe et Antigone"
• Oil on Canvas
• 39 1/3 x 31 2/3 inches, Framed: 46 ¼ x 38 ¾ inches
• Signed lower right
• Price on Request

During and a little bit after Camille-Félix Bellanger’s education at l’École des Beaux Arts in Paris around the 1870’s, he invested a lot of time and thought into religious iconography and Greek mythological paintings. The painting Oedipe et Antigone was created as an inspiration from myths and religion. It is based on a trilogy of plays written by Sophocles in 401 B.C. titled Oedipus at Colonus that deal with the life, death, and aftermath of Oedipus Rex, the king of Thebes, Greece.