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XXX.
The connection
XXX. — song, scripture, image
Artist’s note forthcoming.
The source artwork
Scene of the Massacre of the Innocents
- Artist
- Léon Cogniet
- Date
- 1824
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
Not established in the cited sources: dimensions.
Cogniet places a mother sheltering her child in the foreground, with the wider scene unfolding beyond them. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824. The individual track page shows the original painting with the track title; the collection presents its stained-glass interpretation.
Artwork record · French Ministry of Culture · Joconde (opens in a new tab)The artist
Léon Cogniet
1794–1880
Cogniet was a French painter whose work included history painting, portraits and decorative commissions. His Massacre of the Innocents, exhibited at the Salon of 1824, places a frightened mother protecting her child at the centre of the biblical story.
Artist background · Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans (opens in a new tab)Matthew 2:16-18
Massacre of the Innocents
16When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18"A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
