🖼️ The Massacre at Chios · Eugène Delacroix

Thursday, January 1, 1824 – December 31, 1824 All day

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 destruction visited on the northern Aegean Sea island of Chios in the 1822 Chios massacre. A frieze-like display of suffering characters, military might, ornate and colourful costumes, terror, disease and death is shown in front of a scene of widespread desolation. Eugène Delacroix, 1824 — painted at 26. Canvas and oil paint. 419 × 354 cm. In the Department of Paintings of the Louvre. Wiki link

🖼️ The Massacre at Chios · Eugène Delacroix