Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

The Massacre of the Innocents

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem  De kindermoord te Bethlehem The Massacre of the Innocents
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem  De kindermoord te Bethlehem The Massacre of the Innocents
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem  De kindermoord te Bethlehem The Massacre of the Innocents

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
The Massacre of the Innocents

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General information
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (Haarlem 1562 - 1638 Haarlem)
The Massacre of the Innocents
painting
22
Material and technical details
oil
canvas
268 x 257 cm
Inscriptions
lower right, on a stone: CC f. / Ao 1591

Provenance

Commissioned by the Haarlem magistrates for the Prinsenhof, Haarlem, 1591; exchanged with four other paintings for the Haarlem town hall and placed in the Nationale Konst-Gallery, The Hague, 1804; acquired in exchange with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1825; on long-term loan to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, since 1917 (this loan proceeded via the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, until 2013)