Famous work · not an exact-location map point
The Massacre at Chios
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A massacre scene; the island carries a coordinate but the picture is not a topographic view of it.
- Date
- 1824-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Location relations
Each kind of real-world link is kept separate — a documented viewpoint is never merged with a depicted place or a creation location.
Where the original is now
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
On view — Salle 700, Aile Aile Denon, Niveau 1
Verified from a live museum source on 2026-09-05
Sources
- Musée du Louvre, Paris — collection record for Eugène Delacroix, ‘Scènes des massacres de Scio’, Département des Peintures, inv. INV 3823; Salon of 1824, oil on canvas, 419 × 354 cm (collections.louvre.fr)
- Lee Johnson, ‘The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue’ (Oxford, 1981–2002), no. 105
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