Title: Venus and the Sphinx
Object type: Group
Date: 1868
Artist:  Auguste Préault 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1809–1879 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Tinted plaster
Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 42 1/2 × 45 × 23 3/4 in. (108 × 114.3 × 60.3 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit line: Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, in honor of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, 1981
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sphinx, term: Venus