The Massacre at Chios
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Scenes from the Massacre at Chios is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destructio
Scène des massacres de Scio, Eugène Delacroix Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 3823; C3
Compositional structure of two human pyramids
Figure of the old woman at the foot of the painting
Detail from Delacroix's study Head of a Woman, 1824
Eugène Delacroix
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
The Massacre at Chios
…Scenes from the Massacre at Chios (French: Scènes des massacres de Scio) is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destruction visited on the northern Aegean Sea island of Chios in…
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1857
Portrait of Delacroix early in his career
Portrait of Delacroix c. 1840 by Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin, Musée Carnavalet
The Massacre at Chios (1824)