The Sphinx and the Chimaera

The Sphinx and the Chimaera

John Singer Sargent

887

Oil on canvas

302.58 x 234.31 cm (119 1/8 x 92 1/4 inches)

Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (21.10515)

Commissioned by the MFA in 1916 for $40,018 (for 21.10500-21.10515), installed in the Rotunda in 1921.