(EDIPUS CEDIPL'S AND THE SPHINX, Domi- nique Ingres*, Louvre, Paris ; canvas, H. 6 ft. x 4 ft, 9 in. ; signed, dated 1808. (Edi- pus, nude, standing at the entrance of a cavern, with one foot raised upon a stone, looks fixedly at the Sphinx in front of him as he explains the enigma ; in background, right, the city of Thebes, and a man with arms uplifted in terror ; below are the re- mains of those devoured by the Sphinx. Painted in Rome ; acquired by Due d'Or- leans in 1839, and sold at his sale ; be- queathed by Comtesse Duchatel in 1878. Replica, variation (18G4), Emile Pereire, Paris. Engraved by F. Gaillard. Annales des B. Arts, Salon of 1827, PL 65 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Ch. Blanc, Life, 29. OEFELE, FRANZ IGNAZ, called II Ba- varese, born at Posen in 1721, died in Mu- nich, Sept. 18, 1797. German school ; his- torv and portrait painter, studied in Augs- burg and Munich, then for six years in Venice under G. Nogari, and in Rome under Giovanni Barca ; on his return to Munich was made court painter and professor at the Academy. Member of Diisseldorf Academy. Works : Potiphar's Wife and Joseph ; Wom- an of Samaria ; Daughter of Dibutades ; Portrait of Electress Adelheid, Hofkirche, Munich ; Portrait of himself, Schleissheim Gallery. Lipowsky, i. 220 ; Naglcr, x. 309. OEHME, ERNST (FERDINAND), born in Dresden, April 23, 1797, died there, Sept. 10, 1855. Landscape painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Friedrich ; visited Italy in 1819-25. " Works : Avenue of Trees on Autumn Evening (1830), Dresden Muse- um ; View near Castle Tyrol (1842), Nymph Grotto (1850), Leipsic Museum ; Mountain Chapel ; View near Castle Moritzburg. Cotta's Kunstbl. (1844), 173. OEHME, ERWIN, born in Dresden, Sept. 18, 1831. Landscape and genre paint- er, son and pupil of preceding, and pupil of Ludwig Richter. He entered the Dres- den Academy in 1846, but formed himself more especially by studying nature in Ger- many, Switzerland, England, and France. I Honorary member of Di-esden Academy in 1865 ; Professor. Works : Stone Quarry in Saxon Switzerland (1860), Dresden Gal- lery ; Young Couple before Bridal Night ; Funeral in the Spree- wald; Bear-Hunt; Confirmation (1880) ; Album with Views of Compiegne ; In the Deer Park (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Miiller, 399 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 311, 316. OEHMICHEN, HUGO, born at Borsdorf, near Leipsic, March 10, 1843. Genre paint- er, pupil of the Dresden Academy under Julius Hiibner; visited Italy in 1866-67, and settled in Diisseldorf in 1870. His works show deep feeling, and are characteristic as well as attractive in colouring. Works : Grandfather's Blessing (1864) ; Leaving School (1865), Leipsic Museum ; School Examination (1870) ; Tax-Day (1871), Dres- den Gallery ; Convalescent Soldier (1872) ; Death Message (1873), Wiesbaden Gallery ; Church Decoration before Wedding ; Mar- ket Scene ; After the Christmas Tree (1884); Village Mayor's Office (1885) ; Music not Mathematics, D. W. Powers, Rochester. Miiller, 399. CENIAS, painter, date unknown ; men- tioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [143]) as the painter of a syngenicon, probably a family group. Brunn, ii. 300. OENICKE, CLARA (WILHELMINE), bom in Berlin, July 29, 1818. History painter, pupil in Berlin of Remy, then of Begas and Magnus. Works : Elector John Frederic of Saxony refusing to accept the Interim, Schwerin Gallery ; Charlemagne's Reconciliation with Thassilo of Bavaria ; St. Elizabeth ; Luther comforting the Ailing Melanchthon, Martinsstift at Erfurt ; Luther's Devotions at Home ; Christ the Good Shepherd ; Christ on Mount of
