The Massacre of the Innocents Portraits Probably originally one of a

Probably originally one of a pair representing Gabriel and the Virgin Annunciate

Falling somewhere between genre and portraiture

a woman indicates David to her son

According to Robinson

the discoloured varnish was carefully removed

The Massacre of the Innocents Portraits Probably originally one of aThe subject is from Matthew II, 16 18: having learnt from the wise men of the birth in Bethlehem of the King of the Jews, Herod ordered that the young children of the city be put to death. The picture was begun in 1647, or shortly after, but was left unfinished probably until the mid 1660s, when it was completed for Gdon du Metz, keeper of the Royal Treasury. There are several preliminary drawings in the Louvre.