Greek civilians, wounded, exhausted or dying, wait in the foreground while an Ottoman horseman rears above them and a ruined landscape stretches behind. Delacroix responded to the 1822 massacre on Chios, where some twenty thousand people were killed and most survivors enslaved. Shown at the Salon of 1824, it offers no hero and no hope.
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At lower right, a baby reaches for the breast of its dead mother. The old woman beside them stares past the scene.
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