Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens)

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Massacre of the Innocents is a theme that Peter Paul Rubens painted more than once. One version, now in Munich, was engraved and reproduced as a painting as far away as colonial Peru [link]. Another, his dynamic Massacre of the Innocents is currently the most expensive Old Master painting ever auctioned, after being purchased by Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for £49.5 million GBP (then equal to some $76.7 million USD) at a 2002 Sotheby's auction [link]. Following the auction this painting was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto by Lord Thomson. It was also loaned to the National Gallery in London for several months shortly after the auction.

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