1800-1848
Industrial Revolution I

Delacroix's Scene of the massacre at Chios


Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the massacre at Chios; Greek families awaiting death
or slavery, 1824 Salon, oil on canvas,  164" × 139" / 419 cm × 354 cm
(Musée du Louvre, Paris)

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Scene of the massacre at Chios
Paris, France
1824

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