Napoleon before the Sphinx, wood engraving

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

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