# The Massacre of the Innocents

- By: François Joseph Navez (Belgian, Charleroi 1787–1869 Brussels)
- Date: 1824
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 46 x 52 3/4 in. (117 x 134 cm)
- Culture: Belgian
- 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
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438462)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/ep/web-large/DP-31220-001.jpg
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