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, with a frieze-like display of suffering characters, military might, ornate and colourful costumes, terror, disease and death in front of a scene of widespread desolation.
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The painting was completed and displayed at the Salon of 1824 and hangs at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
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is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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Scenes from the Massacre at Chios (French: Scènes des massacres de Scio) is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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