Massacre of the Innocents

ca. 1585–86

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; third state of three
Dimensions: Sheet: 19 in. × 14 5/8 in. (48.3 × 37.1 cm)
Collection no.: 17.37.60
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Hendrik Goltzius. Massacre of the Innocents. Hendrik Goltzius; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Henry Walters, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Massacre of the Innocents — Hendrik Goltzius. ca. 1585–86.

Medium: Engraving; third state of three. Dimensions: Sheet: 19 in. × 14 5/8 in. (48.3 × 37.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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