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Sphinx surplombant une ville fortifiée

A painting of a sphinx with a woman's head and a lion's body perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking a winding road leading to a walled city, set against a gold-leaf sky.

The Sphinx of Thebes crouched on a rock above the road to the city in morning light, her folded wings and lion body built in fine hatched strokes of egg tempera, a gold-leaf sky behind, the road and hills in ochre and green earth, the painting running to all four edges, no border, flat and square-on Voir plus

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