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Black-and-white wood engraving of a horseman in a hat beside a large sphinx with a headdress on a sandy desert plain with distant hills.

Napoleon before the Sphinx

A mounted rider in a tricorn hat sits on a dark horse at left, looking toward a large stone sphinx with a headdress at right, its face weathered and its body half-buried in sand. Fine parallel hatching renders a flat desert plain, low hills, and a pale sky in this black-and-white wood engraving, with a signature in the lower right margin.

Artist
Henry Wolf
Date
1888
Medium
wood engraving on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Size
2704 × 1828 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1888).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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