Pieter Bruegel the Elder · c.1565-1567
Massacre of the Innocents
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Herod's soldiers, here in sixteenth-century armour, ride into a snowbound Flemish village while a troop of horsemen waits in the square and villagers plead at doors and in the street. This is the Royal Collection version, overpainted long ago so that food, animals and bundles replace the murdered children. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
Up to 23.4 × 16 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Massacre of the Innocents
Several oil-on-oak versions of The Massacre of the Innocents were painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger, translating the Biblical account into a winter scene in the Southern Netherlands. The version in the British Royal Collection (c. 1565-1567) is now thought to be the only one by Bruegel the Elder. It was for some time at Hampton Court Palace and has been at Windsor Castle since 2017. It appears that Emperor Rudolf II had it overpainted to hide the dead and dying children, who were replaced by food items and sacks of goods.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes ; he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
All Pieter Bruegel the Elder prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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