Some figures in this painting were partially based on the artist's earlier study Orphan Girl at the Cemetery and a man wearing a red fez on the left was based on sketches the artist drew of men wearing Suliots. The artist repainted the dark cloudy background after seeing Constable's The Haywain and on the bottom right hand corner a baby grabs the nipple of the corpse of a dead woman. In the center of this work a shadowed figure holding a rifle looms over an embracing couple. This painting was exhibited in the Salon opposite The Oath of Louis XIII, which triggered a rivalry between two artists and Antoine-Jean Gros was so offended by how it borrowed from his piece The Plague of Jaffa that he dubbed this work "The Massacre of Painting." On the right side of this painting a nude woman is tied to the horse of a turbaned soldier who participat
Some figures in this painting were partially based on the artist's earlier study Orphan Girl at the Cemetery and a man wearing a red fez on the left was based on sketches the artist drew of men wearing Suliots. The artist repainted the dark cloudy background after seeing Constable's The Haywain and on the bottom right hand corner a baby grabs the nipple of the corpse of a dead woman. In the center of this work a shadowed figure holding a rifle looms over an embracing couple. This painting was exhibited in the Salon opposite The Oath of Louis XIII, which triggered a rivalry between two artists and Antoine-Jean Gros was so offended by how it borrowed from his piece The Plague of Jaffa that he dubbed this work "The Massacre of Painting." On the right side of this painting a nude woman is tied to the horse of a turbaned soldier who participates in the title event. For 10 points, name this painting depicting Ottoman soldiers slaughtering Greek civilians, created by Eugene Delacroix.
Some figures in this painting were partially based on the artist's earlier study Orphan Girl at the Cemetery and a man wearing a red fez on the left was based on sketches the artist drew of men wearing Suliots.
The Massacre at {Chios}