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Cain Slaying Abel, Pier Francesco Mola, ca. 1650–52
Pier Francesco Mola, portraitPier Francesco MolaItalian, 1612–1666

Cain Slaying Abel

ca. 1650–52 · Painting

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Where is “Cain Slaying Abel” now? The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 623, New York. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room623

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Accession number
2020.112

What it shows

AbelCain

In the catalog

PaintingsOilItalian paintingBaroque17th century

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Adolf von Hildebrand

Cain and Abel, 1890

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Cain after the murder of Abel, c 1761

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