#sphinx
Art the community tagged “sphinx” — see what people make of it.
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Enigma by Gustave Doré, 1871
It was painted the year Paris fell to the Prussians, and from what I've read it's one of a small set he made about that war — the smoking city in the background is meant to be Paris itself. Why there's a sphinx in the middle of it, no one seems to agree; even the title just shrugs.