The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez, 1824
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The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez (Belgian, Charleroi 1787–1869 Brussels)

1824

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
46 x 52 3/4 in. (117 x 134 cm)
Culture
Belgian
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings
Credit line
Purchase, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, and Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2023
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed

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