Often shown as a beautiful woman by Symbolist painters, FTP, name this winged creature who presents a riddle to Oedipus.    
A painting depicting the "kiss" of this figure by German artist Franz von Stuck was inspired by a poem of Heinrich Heine. Francis Bacon depicts a deformed version of this creature on the left against a bright pink wall; a window is open in the center revealing a bloody dead animal floating in the black night with an arrow pointing to it. That canvas is titled after a work by J.A.D Ingres, which also depicts this figure at left while a man in red comically runs away on the bottom right toward the light and a city in the background. Another canvas with a large trophy at the bottom right depicts it situated vertically in the center Â– that work, by Gustave Moreau, has a ledge leading to ►a pit at the bottom containing a severed foot and ribcage, presumably the work of this nasty creature. Often shown as a beautiful woman by Symbolist painters, FTP, name this winged creature who presents a riddle to Oedipus.    
A painting depicting the "kiss" of this figure by German artist Franz von Stuck was inspired by a poem of Heinrich Heine.
the Sphinx