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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca 1525-1569), The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-67, detail 3. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
In the background, a heavily armed cavalry group led by a white-bearded, black-clad man on a light chestnut horse in the centre, is supervising the children’s slaughter in front of them, while women in horror run off from the scene.