Title: The Massacre of the Innocents
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1590
Artist:  Giovanni Battista della Rovere 
Artist bio: Italian, Milan ca. 1575–ca. 1630 Milan (?)
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); sketch for the decoration of a spandrel in pen and brown ink over red chalk (verso)
Dimensions: 15-11/16 x 21-13/16 in.  (39.9 x 55.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1963
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Massacres, term: Children